If AGP is just a fetish then damn that’s a hell of a fetish because it takes over your entire psychology, identity, plans, ambitions, affecting every single aspect of your life.
That’s why I think it’s more like a paraphilic orientation that *can* manifest in fetishism but in fact goes much deeper into the unconscious mind and potentially touches core autobiographical self identity narratives, driving and shaping behavior that goes far beyond a mere bedroom kink.
A common rhetorical move in right-wing/GC circles is to poison the well by describing ALL gender surgery (not just pediatric) as “mutilation.”
This is philosophically incorrect.
Mutilation implies either (1) the direct intention to mutilate or (2) a factual description of the result of an action (X was mutilated by Y.)
For gender surgery, obviously the primary intention isn’t to “mutilate” but to make body modifications that ultimately relieve psychiatric distress from gender incongruity and identity disorders and improve psychosocial function.
To the extent that healthy physiological function is damaged, that is an unintended side-effect not the primary intention (doctrine of double effect.)
Now, a detransitioner can come to express regret and/or genuine medical malpractice can result in “being mutilated.”
But notice how that is distinct from saying all gender surgery (even for adults) is intrinsically mutilation, even if the surgeon did not intend to mutilate and the patient reports improved psychosocial function.
You can attempt argue that research shows gender surgery does NOT improve psychosocial function (on average) but this does not negate the very real fact that many trans people report that they are happy with their results and that it relieved psychic distress, which argues against these surgeries being intrinsically mutilations.
In conclusion, the rhetoric of “mutilation” is more political than it is a neutral clinical description of what these procedures are intended to accomplish, and fundamentally represents an outmoded form of paternalistic medicine that fails to take into account the dynamic, artful coordination between patient preference and medical expertise.
Out of millions of trans women, GC feminists love to pick out the most deranged and perverted as representative of all trans women but hate it when men do the same by pointing out how many cluster B, neurotic, batshit, irrational women exist within their own ranks of feminists.
some people don't get bottom surgery because it can be expensive, risky, scary, or they're not satisfied with the results, I'm not getting it cause I don't have bottom dysphoria, real sigma style
A lot of people in the Christian world frame crossdressing and AGP as an “addiction.”
But even if it is, if I have an endless supply, and it causes no real health issues, and I’m not personally ashamed of it, is it really so bad to have an addiction?
I would offer coffee as another example of a mostly benign addiction.