But for the completeness, I would also like to know the prevalence of autogynephilia among cis men
It’s somewhat unclear but it probably looks something like this:
where “CGS” is an abbreviation of “cross-gender sexuality”, and covers stuff like this (from a different survey).
and this part is uncontroversial? or at least has been for a long time?
I mean it is certainly uncontroversial that some trans women are exclusively attracted to men and some trans women are not exclusively attracted to men. But that presumably has something to do that you see the same for other demographics, e.g. cis men or cis women, where some are attracted to men and some are not, as well as from the fact that most trans women are open about their orientation and there’s plenty of trans women from each orientation available.
However, Blanchardians tend to go motte/bailey a lot with this. Like they add a lot of additional claims about this, and then put forth the positions that these additional claims are also part of the uncontroversial knowledge, and obviously the more claims you add, the less uncontroversial it will be. They also have the advantage that it used to be only a handful of academics and clinicians discussing it, so “uncontroversial” within this handful of people isn’t as significant as “uncontroversial” today.
What rubs me the wrong way is the “a male’s propensity to...” part of the definition. I mean, why not simply define it as “a propensity to...”, and then talk about the prevalence of autogynephilia among men? (Maybe I am just overthinking it and Blanchard would say: whatever.)
You’re not overthinking it, Blanchardians constantly do this sort of thing, where they try to establish their ideas as true by definition. (Another example of this is, sometimes I’ve been studying autogynephilia in gay men, and Blanchardians have tended to say that this is definitionally impossible.)
It’s somewhat unclear but it probably looks something like this:
where “CGS” is an abbreviation of “cross-gender sexuality”, and covers stuff like this (from a different survey).
I mean it is certainly uncontroversial that some trans women are exclusively attracted to men and some trans women are not exclusively attracted to men. But that presumably has something to do that you see the same for other demographics, e.g. cis men or cis women, where some are attracted to men and some are not, as well as from the fact that most trans women are open about their orientation and there’s plenty of trans women from each orientation available.
However, Blanchardians tend to go motte/bailey a lot with this. Like they add a lot of additional claims about this, and then put forth the positions that these additional claims are also part of the uncontroversial knowledge, and obviously the more claims you add, the less uncontroversial it will be. They also have the advantage that it used to be only a handful of academics and clinicians discussing it, so “uncontroversial” within this handful of people isn’t as significant as “uncontroversial” today.
You’re not overthinking it, Blanchardians constantly do this sort of thing, where they try to establish their ideas as true by definition. (Another example of this is, sometimes I’ve been studying autogynephilia in gay men, and Blanchardians have tended to say that this is definitionally impossible.)