I admire that you speak candidly about your experiences as a trans person. But I disagree with your take on AGP.
Gay men who "live vicariously through divas who snare the handsome men" are expressing gay sexuality: they want to attract handsome men. It seems you're failing to understand what autogynephilia is, because it's not that.
Autogynephilia is sexual attraction to the female form, not the male form: breasts, vagina, curvy hips, etc. Gay males only want to possess those characteristics in order to make themselves desirable to straight men, because it's the MALE form that turns them on. Autogynephiles by contrast want to possess those characteristics because those characteristics directly turn them on: they want to make themselves desirable to THEMSELVES, because THEY are straight men — attracted to the female form.
"Anecdotally, most trans women are attracted to men." That's not true. It may be the case that your social network is majority homosexual males, but overall, the majority of males who adopt trans identities are heterosexual: exclusively, near-exclusively, or primarily attracted to females.
"Given the overwhelming evidence that the vast majority of trans women are not autogynephilic..." On the contrary, the evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of males who adopt trans identities are autogynephilic. Sexologists agree on this, and it's also self-evident from the content of online trans social networks, which are filled with porn that's clearly heterosexual, fetishistic role-reversal. It's plainly undeniable, the sexual — and heterosexual — flavour of so many men's ideas about themselves "as women."
In the past, homosexual transsexuals and autogynephilic transsexuals tended to keep apart. Perhaps you're not noticing how many autogynephiles there are because you're in a predominantly homosexual-transsexual social scene?
What you are describing sounds like the gender critical / right-wing culture warrior conspiracy theory version of 'autogynephilia'. There is no such thing in the real world. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the constant misinformation and fake news from the far-right. And I'm saying this as an anti-woke liberal.
I admire that you speak candidly about your experiences as a trans person. But I disagree with your take on AGP.
Gay men who "live vicariously through divas who snare the handsome men" are expressing gay sexuality: they want to attract handsome men. It seems you're failing to understand what autogynephilia is, because it's not that.
Autogynephilia is sexual attraction to the female form, not the male form: breasts, vagina, curvy hips, etc. Gay males only want to possess those characteristics in order to make themselves desirable to straight men, because it's the MALE form that turns them on. Autogynephiles by contrast want to possess those characteristics because those characteristics directly turn them on: they want to make themselves desirable to THEMSELVES, because THEY are straight men — attracted to the female form.
"Anecdotally, most trans women are attracted to men." That's not true. It may be the case that your social network is majority homosexual males, but overall, the majority of males who adopt trans identities are heterosexual: exclusively, near-exclusively, or primarily attracted to females.
"Given the overwhelming evidence that the vast majority of trans women are not autogynephilic..." On the contrary, the evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of males who adopt trans identities are autogynephilic. Sexologists agree on this, and it's also self-evident from the content of online trans social networks, which are filled with porn that's clearly heterosexual, fetishistic role-reversal. It's plainly undeniable, the sexual — and heterosexual — flavour of so many men's ideas about themselves "as women."
In the past, homosexual transsexuals and autogynephilic transsexuals tended to keep apart. Perhaps you're not noticing how many autogynephiles there are because you're in a predominantly homosexual-transsexual social scene?
What you are describing sounds like the gender critical / right-wing culture warrior conspiracy theory version of 'autogynephilia'. There is no such thing in the real world. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the constant misinformation and fake news from the far-right. And I'm saying this as an anti-woke liberal.