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Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex is hosted on this website and can be read by following the links below. Autoheterosexual explains the sexual orientation underlying most instances of gender dysphoria or transgender identity. This information is important: autoheterosexuals deserve a fair shot at understanding themselves, and gender transition is a serious decision.

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Table of Contents

• 1.0— Straight, Turned Inside Out

  • 1.1— Sex, Gender, and Transgender

  • 1.2— Sexual Orientation

• 2.0— Autogynephilia (AGP)

  • 2.1— Anatomic Autogynephilia

  • 2.2— Sartorial Autogynephilia

  • 2.3— Behavioral Autogynephilia

  • 2.4— Physiologic Autogynephilia

  • 2.5— Interpersonal Autogynephilia

• 3.0— Autoandrophilia (AAP)

  • 3.1— Interpersonal Autoandrophilia

• 4.0— Are Traps Gay?

  • 4.1— Gynandromorphophilia (GAMP)

  • 4.2— Mental Health and Transgenderism

  • 4.3— Autism

• 5.0— How Common Is Autoheterosexuality?

  • 5.1— Arriving at the Two-Type Model

  • 5.2— Changing Identity, Changing Preferences

  • 5.3— Which Kind of Trans Is the Most Common?

  • 5.4— More Females Are Transitioning

• 6.0— Autohet Cross-Gender Development

  • 6.1— Gender Euphoria

  • 6.2— Gender Dysphoria

  • 6.3— Which Comes First: Sexuality or Identity?

• 7.0— Autosexual Orientations

  • 7.1— Transabled

  • 7.3— Furries

  • 7.4— Therians

  • 7.5— Otherkin

  • 7.6— Transrace

• 8.0— Culturally Integrating Autoheterosexuality

  • 8.1— Juvenile Transsexualism

  • 8.2— Ending the Cover-Up

  • 8.3— A Call for Revolution

• 9.0— Closing Thoughts

• How You Can Help

• Glossary

TOC— Detailed

• 1.0— Straight, Turned Inside Out

  • Homosexual Transgenderism

  • Autoandrophilia and Autogynephilia

  • Transgender Demographics

  • Sorting the Two Types

  • Knowledge About Autoheterosexuality Is Being Actively Suppressed

  • Ending the Cover-Up: Prioritizing “Is” over “Ought”

  • Why the Concept of Autoheterosexuality Is So Threatening

  • Why I Wrote This Book

  • Language Choices

  • Are You Autoheterosexual?

  • Autoheterosexual Readers: Stay Calm. Think.

  • Autoheterosexual Embodiment Subtypes

  • Sartorial Autoheterosexuality

  • Psyche Autoheterosexuality

  • Partner Preferences and Meta-Attraction

  • Simplifying the LGBTQ Alphabet Soup: Nonhet and Autohet

  • Why “Autoheterosexual”?

• 1.1— Sex, Gender, and Transgender

  • Gender

  • Transgender

  • What Is A Woman? What Is A Man?

• 1.2— Sexual Orientation

  • Measuring Sexual Orientation

  • Sexual Orientation and Hormonal Exposure

  • Easier to Differentiate the Two Types of MTFs

  • Fraternal Birth Order Effect

  • The “Where” and “What” of Sexual Orientation

  • Autosexual Trans Identities

• 2.0— Autogynephilia (AGP)

  • Autogynephilic Embodiment Subtypes

  • The Importance of Historical Narratives

  • Modern Autogynephilic Sexuality

  • Psyche Autogynephilia, Shifting, and Transfeminine Identity

  • The Hungarian Physician: The Feminine Imperative

• 2.1— Anatomic Autogynephilia

  • Anatomic Autogynephilia before Transsexualism

  • Anatomic Autogynephilia in the Age of Transsexualism

• 2.2— Sartorial Autogynephilia

  • Transvestism before Transsexualism Existed

  • Women’s Clothing Feeds Transfem Identity

  • Tactile Sensations: Corsets, Softness, and Lace

  • Silk and Lace

  • Corsets: “Corsetted and Laced to the Last Gasp”

• 2.3— Behavioral Autogynephilia

  • Behavioral Autogynephilia in the Past

  • Playing the Succubus (Being a Bottom)

  • Modern Behavioral AGP

• 2.4— Physiologic Autogynephilia

  • Pregnancy Transvestites

  • Lactation and Breastfeeding

  • Modern Physiologic Autogynephilia

• 2.5— Interpersonal Autogynephilia

  • Being a Woman Among Women

  • Ambigynephilia and Autogynephilic Meta-Attraction

  • Narratives of Meta-Attraction to Women

  • Meta-Androphilia: Gender-Affirming Attraction to Men

  • Preferential Androphilia in Autogynephilic People

  • Meta-Androphilia: A Contentious Concept

  • Historical Narratives of Meta-Androphilia

• 3.0— Autoandrophilia (AAP)

  • Autoandrophilic Mental Shifts and Gender Identity

  • Autoandrophilic Embodiment Subtypes

  • The Limited yet Sufficient Formal Evidence for Autoandrophilia

  • Anatomic Autoandrophilia

  • Having a Penis

  • A Man’s Flat Chest

  • Manly Hair: Short Hairstyles and Facial Hair

  • Sartorial Autoandrophilia: Dressing as a Man

  • Reports of Transvestism

  • Why Is Transvestism in Females Reported Less Frequently?

  • Physiologic Autoandrophilia

  • Behavioral Autoandrophilia

  • Masculine Sexual Behavior

  • Mr. G: A True Bad Boy

• 3.1— Interpersonal Autoandrophilia

  • Socially Being a Man

  • Autoandrophilic Meta-Attraction

  • Meta-Gynephilia: Attraction to Being a Man with a Woman

  • Ambiandrophilia and Meta-Attraction to Feminine Men

  • Attraction to Gay Men

  • Changes to Sexual Orientation After FTM Transition

  • Homoerotic Media

  • From One Kind of Gay to Another

• 4.0— Are Traps Gay?

  • Are Feminized Males Attracted to Men?

  • Is It Gay for a Male to Be Inadvertently Attracted to a Feminized Male?

  • Is It Gay for a Male to Be Particularly Attracted to a Feminized Male?

  • So…Are Traps Gay?

• 4.1— Gynandromorphophilia (GAMP)

  • GAMP Prevalence

  • The NU GAMP Survey

  • Gynandromorphophilia Affects Sexual Identity

  • GAMP and AGP: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

  • Samoan Men’s Attraction to Effeminate Males

  • Autogynandromorphophilia (AGAMP)

  • Using Language That Treats Trans Attractions as Worthy

  • Researching Trans-Attractions and Including Them in the LGBTQ Coalition

• 4.2— Mental Health and Transgenderism

  • Befriending Numbers

  • Minority Stress Theory: Much Ado About Mild Effects

  • Mental Traits Are Highly Heritable

  • Nonheterosexuality and Depression Have Shared Genetic Factors

  • Trans People Have High Rates of Mental Disorders

  • Transgender Suicidality

  • Transgender Suicidality: More than Gender Dysphoria

  • Discrimination and Mistreatment Increases Suicidality

• 4.3— Autism

  • Autistic Gender Alienation

  • Autism Is Associated with Neurological Masculinization

  • Autohet Trans People Have High Rates of Autism

• 5.0— How Common Is Autoheterosexuality?

  • Exactly How Many Autoheterosexuals Are There?

  • The Czech Autohet Prevalence Estimates

  • Comparing Autoheterosexual and Nonheterosexual Prevalence

  • Autoheterosexuality and Same-Sex Attraction

• 5.1— Arriving at the Two-Type Model

  • Hirschfeld’s Transvestite Taxonomy

  • Differentiating Transsexuals from Homosexuals and Transvestites

  • Addressing Suffering: Gender Dysphoria Syndrome

  • Arriving at the Two Types: Effeminate Homosexuals and Transvestites

  • Research at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry

  • Blanchard’s Transsexualism Research

  • Seemingly Accurate, but Controversial

  • Just How Reliable Is the Testimony of Gender Patients?

  • Replicating the Two-Type MTF Typology

  • Dutch Researchers Replicate the MTF Typology

  • The Most Convincing Replication

  • FTM Typology

  • An Exploratory FTM Typology Study

  • Is There a Typology for Trans Men?

• 5.2— Changing Identity, Changing Preferences

  • Realistic Researchers Address Autoheterosexuality

  • Meta-Attraction Influences Sexuality Shifts

• 5.3— Which Kind of Trans Is the Most Common?

  • Measuring Sexual Orientation: Identities and Attractions

  • The Impact of Time, Space, and Culture on Estimates of Trans Etiology

  • Transgender Americans are Usually Autohet

• 5.4— More Females Are Transitioning

  • Social Media

  • Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)

  • Sex, Etiology, and Gender Issues

  • Why are Autohet FTMs Becoming More Prevalent?

  • Object-Mediated Sexuality Reduces Dysphoria

  • Psychological Sex Differences and Other Factors

  • Postmodern Gender Memeplex (the New Gender Ideas)

  • Patriarchy

• 6.0— Autohet Cross-Gender Development

  • The Puberty Crisis

  • Societal Repression Slows Cross-Gender Development

  • A Brave New Gender World

  • À la Carte Transgenderism

  • The Autoheterosexual Skinner Box

  • Shifting Gender Attitudes and Sentiments

  • Transition Decision(s)

• 6.1— Gender Euphoria

  • Initially Intense

  • The Transformative Potential of Unspeakable Delight

  • The High of New Love

  • Becoming What We Love: The Romance Hypothesis

  • Internal Union with the Cross-Gender Self

• 6.2— Gender Dysphoria

  • Autoheterosexuality and the Medical Definition of Gender Dysphoria

  • Dissociation: Depersonalization/Derealization (DP/DR)

  • Gender Envy

  • Autoandrophilic Gender Envy

  • Autogynephilic Gender Envy

  • Anatomic Dysphoria

  • Sartorial Dysphoria

  • Social Dysphoria

  • Behavioral Dysphoria

  • Physiologic Dysphoria

  • Depression and Anxiety

  • Ego-Dystonic Arousal: Being Upset about What Turns You On

  • Shame

  • The Sex-Positive Approach to Transcending Shame

  • Repression

  • Repressing through Purging

  • Repressing through Alloheterosexuality

  • Crisis of Meaning

  • Suicidality

• 6.3— Which Comes First: Sexuality or Identity?

  • Autogynephilia in Females (Female Autohomosexuality)

  • Autogynephilia as a Way of Coping with Gender Incongruence

  • Evidence Favors the “Autoheterosexuality First” Narrative

• 7.0— Autosexual Orientations

  • Variations in Erotic Target Location

  • Why Have Chapters on Other Autosexual Orientations?

• 7.1— Transabled

  • Body Integrity Disorder as a Neurological Disorder

• 7.3— Furries

  • Yiffing: Furry Sexuality

  • Furry Embodiment as a Form of Autosexuality

  • Fursonas: Furry Identity

  • Cross-Species Identity and Human Embodiment

• 7.4— Therians

  • Shifting

  • Zoophilia—Sexual Attraction to Animals

• 7.5— Otherkin

  • Kintype Embodiment: Kinshifting, Body Adornments, and Body Modifications

  • Fictionkin and Objectkin

  • Identity: Degree, Agency, and Coping

  • Xenogenders

  • Xenogenders Are Genders If Gender Is “Who You Are”

  • Otherkin and Human Gender Variance

  • Otherkin Sexuality: “Anything Sexual Makes Me Shifty AF”

• 7.6— Transrace

  • Phylophilia: Race-Based Sexual Attraction

  • Multiple Types of Transrace Identity

  • Investigating Transracialism

  • First Signs of Transracialism

  • Media Coverage of Transracialism

  • Race Dysphoria

  • Race Euphoria

  • Medical Transracialism

  • Race-Based Sexuality: Allophylophilia and Autophylophilia

  • Autoheterosexuality and Gendered Sexuality

  • Survey Summary

  • Limitations

  • Arguments for Transgender Legitimacy Also Apply to Transrace Identity

• 8.0— Culturally Integrating Autoheterosexuality

  • Freedom of Dress

  • Pronouns

  • Which Kinds of Trans Identities Can Fit into Society?

  • The Vanilla Definition of Sexual Orientation Is Obsolete

  • Technology to Change Sexual Orientation

  • Sexual Preferences Are Not Transphobic

• 8.1— Juvenile Transsexualism

  • Collect More Data, and Follow Up for Longer

  • Hormones, Blockers, and Mitochondria

  • Sex Hormones Impact All Bodily Systems

  • Mitochondria

  • Estradiol Protects against Mitochondrial Dysfunction

  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) and Sex Hormones

  • GnRH Agonists Have Hella Side Effects

  • Puberty Blocker Monotherapy Weakens Bones in Transsexual Minors

  • Persistence, Desistance, and Sexual Orientation

  • The Dutch Protocol

  • Puberty Blockers Solidify Commitment to Medical Transition

  • Social Transition Increases Commitment to the Cross-Gender Path

  • A Political Fight over an Empirical Question

  • Can Kids Consent to Transsexualism?

  • Giving Cross-Sex Hormones Earlier as Harm Reduction

• 8.2— Ending the Cover-Up

  • Truly Informed Consent

  • Teach Autoheterosexuality in Sex Ed

  • The Incompatibility between Activism and Truth-Seeking

• 8.3— A Call for Revolution

  • The Power of Etiological Understanding

  • It’s Time for a Paradigm Revolution

  • Researchers Must Separate by Etiology and Sex

• 9.0— Closing Thoughts

  • Our Path Thus Far

  • The Based Path to Self-Acceptance

  • Harnessing the Cross-Gender North Star

• How You Can Help

  • Come Out

  • Spread Knowledge: Edit Wikipedia

  • Spread Knowledge: Speak Up

• Glossary