I'm Raising Awareness of Autoheterosexuality and the Two-Type Transgender Model
What I'm Doing, Why I'm Doing It, and How You Can Help
This is Understanding Trans, a newsletter about sexuality, gender, and transgenderism.
My primary goal is to raise awareness of autoheterosexuality—a sexual attraction to being the other sex. As part of this awareness-raising endeavor, I’m also implementing a two-type model of transgenderism in which one type is homosexual and the other autoheterosexual.
I'm raising awareness of autoheterosexuality so that people with gender issues can suffer less and grasp their situation as quickly as possible—and I need your help
Why are you doing this?
I have the autoheterosexual kind of gender dysphoria. I only learned about the existence of my orientation at age 31, even though the scientist who first named it did so when I was only two years old. I wish I knew earlier, and I think many of my kind would benefit from understanding their situation as early as possible.
Autoheterosexuality is the most common cause of gender dysphoria and transgenderism in the US and most other Western countries.
Unfortunately, autoheterosexuality is the third rail of transgender politics, so some autohet transsexuals have worked together to cover it up. But the suppression of knowledge about autoheterosexuality is about to end.
First of all, it’s simply impossible to cover up the existence of a sexual orientation that millions of people have. Autoheterosexuality arises generation after generation, just as it has across countless prior generations. At some point, most people are going to notice the obvious fact that some people are attracted to being the other sex.
Secondly, it’s morally wrong to cover up autoheterosexuality. Since 2003, however, socially-enforced ignorance has kept countless autoheterosexuals in the dark about our orientations. We’ve been left alone to interpret a wide array of thoughts, feelings, and inclinations that, without an explanation, are hard to make sense of and which can bring about confusion and shame.
In short, it’s both impossible and morally wrong to suppress knowledge of a sexual orientation that millions of people have. Especially when that orientation isn’t innately harmful to act upon, and is also the single greatest source of gender dysphoria in both sexes.
I think it’s bullshit that people with gender issues can’t get straightforward knowledge about their condition because that knowledge has been intentionally suppressed. To address this knowledge-based injustice, I wrote a book about my orientation titled Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex [link forthcoming].
Guaranteed to spark a hellfire of controversy, Autoheterosexual will liberate thousands of autoheterosexuals from private confusion and shame by making their sexual orientation a part of mainstream awareness, and help destigmatize it so that gender-dysphoric homosexuals and autoheterosexuals alike can understand their gender issues as soon as possible and make the transition decisions that are right for them.
Autoheterosexual will see release sometime this Spring, but I don’t know the exact release date yet. I’ll let you know as soon as I find out though.
Why are you posting about a book that doesn’t even have a release date yet?
My landlord and grocer don’t take IOUs, so it looks like I’ll be entering the public arena a bit earlier than expected in order to procure funding. I had philanthropic funding for the great bulk of the project, but I ran way over-budget—Autoheterosexual is quite comprehensive, so it took longer to write than expected. But it’s done.
The publishing company just needs a few months to transform the completed manuscript into its final form: a comprehensive book about attraction to being the other sex which explains not only autoheterosexual trans identity, but also other forms of trans identity based in a desire to be what you love.
Financially, I need to make it until royalties start coming in (typically 90 days after release). So about 6–7 months of living expenses.
How you can help: fund or follow
If you think it’s important for gender-dysphoric people to have access to information that can help them understand their dysphoria, I’d really appreciate your support.
One way to help is to put me in touch with a donor-class individual who would like to fund the book launch process. This would allow me to give full attention to the countless tasks that lie ahead without being distracted by the need to pay rent and buy food. I know there are likely many philanthropists who would be open to helping me, I just don’t know them yet. If you know one, please put us in touch.
If you don’t know such an individual, however, you can still help by personally contributing with one of these links:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phililly
If you don’t have money or don’t want to give me any, that’s okay. But I highly recommend that you at least subscribe to this newsletter.
My aim is to make transgenderism finally make sense. I want to supplant gender woo-woo with gender science so that my kind can face reality and figure out how they want to address their gender feelings as soon as possible.
If you want to be on the forefront of this knowledge expansion, plunk yer email in the box below and smash “Subscribe”:
Together, we can help millions of people properly interpret their gender feelings, and greatly reduce human suffering by doing so.
Thanks for helping (and for reading).
This is the just the first post of many. There will be more. So many more.
-Phil Illy