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Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex 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