요약
1. 의학적 의미의 트랜스섹슈얼은 90년대에 이념적 의미의 트랜스젠더로 교체되었다.
2. 트랜스젠더는 본질적으로 이분법적 젠더 체제에 저항하는 정치적 정체성이다.
3. 2와 같은 젠더 이론적 관점이 현재 광범위하게 퍼져있지만, 그것은 원래 의미의 성별 불쾌감을 제대로 설명하지 못한다.
I am writing in response to a reader’s question, “If you had to guess, what most accounts for the steep rise in the prevalence of opposite-sex identification in the last decade?”
I think there are multiple reasons for the increasing prevalence of cross-gender identity (and its emotional correlate, gender dysphoria). One reason is social contagion, especially through the vector of social media. This is the most likely explanation for the explosive increase in gender-dysphoric teenagers (overwhelmingly girls). This type of nonclassical gender dysphoria, which is typically not preceded by substantial cross-gender behavior in childhood, has been called rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) by @LisaLittman1.
A second reason concerns interconnected trends in activist politics, legacy media, the NGO sector, and changing societal mores. This constellation of factors mostly concerns the increase in adult heterosexual men (nearly all autogynephilic) leaving their wives and children in order to pursue life in the female role.
Early in this century, trans activists reframed transsexualism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Trans people were not to be seen as individuals with a circumscribed but painful mental disorder meriting sympathy but rather as an oppressed group deserving social justice.
This change in perspective paved the way for an alignment of the trans movement with the progressive movement (“Wokism”). It was accompanied by supportive publicity from the legacy media, who are generally favorable toward anything they perceive as progressive. This was anyway not much of a stretch for the US legacy media, because large media companies had run sympathetic stories on trans, for their own circulation purposes, back to the 1950’s, with the splashy coverage of Christine Jorgensen. The forgoing factors and the larger context of changing societal mores enabled the emergence of role models like Caitlyn Jenner and Admiral Rachel Levine.
@ETTD18, @4thWaveNow
Debunking Autogynephilia — An examination of the evidence that autogynephilia is not a paraphilia limited to men but a common psychological feature of normal women 🧵
In 1989, I defined autogynephilia as the propensity, in some men, to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of themselves as women. I also identified autogynephilia as one of two common risk factors for gender dysphoria in men, the other being homosexuality. My writings on autogynephilia elicited a great deal of resistance from transsexual activists and from “allied” physicians and mental health professionals, despite the personal testimonies of many men that this syndrome described their experiences perfectly. (1 of 10)
Episode 8 - Demystifying AGP
Sexologist and autogynephilia expert Dr. James Morandini discusses his very humane approach to counselling parents of natal boys who express a desire to be the opposite sex, even if they are not obviously feminine.
It is very likely that natal boys who have an autogynephilic sexuality will have persistent and unrelenting desire to be the other sex, that is unlikely to fade over time
It is no more likely to fade than a gay person becomes straight, or vice-versa
Hoping it goes away is wishful thinking, what matters is deciding how they want to live with this sexuality