These conditions are famous mostly because a few sexologists, especially Ray Blanchard and Michael Bailey, speculate that they are the most common cause of transgender.
They point to studies showing most trans women endorse autogynephilia. Most trans people disagree with this theory, sometimes very strongly, and accuse it of reducing transgender to a fetish. Without wading into the moral issues around it, I thought it would be interesting to get data from the SSC survey. First of all, thanks to the 6, people trans, cis, confused who answered these questions despite my disclaimers.
Group n Autogynephilia Autoandrophilia Cis men 2. This is the opposite of how Blanchard and Bailey sometimes use these terms, so be careful comparing these results to theirs! In this dataset, autogenderphilia rates in gay cis men were equal to those in lesbian trans women.
Autogenderphilia in cis people was divided between fantasies about being the opposite gender, and fantasies about being the gender they already were. What does it mean to fantasize about being a gender you already are?
I asked a cis female friend who admitted to autogynephilia. She told me:. Uhβ¦moving on. The highest rates of autogenderphilia were found in bi cis men autoandrophilia , gay cis men autoandrophilia , bi trans women autogynephilia , and lesbian trans women autogynephilia.
