Autogynephilia
A scientific review, feminist analysis, and alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11599883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Serano (Independent Scholar, USA), Julia M Serano (Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 763-778 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026120934690 |
| OpenAlex | W3048805408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 39 |
It is generally accepted within psychology and among trans health providers that transgender people who transition do so because they have a gender identity that is incongruent with their birth-assigned sex, and distinct from their sexual orientation. In contradiction to this standard model, the theory of autogynephilia posits that transgender women’s female gender identities and transitions are merely a by-product of their sexual orientations. While subsequent research has yielded numerous lines of evidence that, taken together, disprove the theory, autogynephilia is still often touted by anti-transgender groups, including trans-exclusionary feminists. Here, I provide an updated overview of the scientific case against autogynephilia. Following that, I will forward an alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model that explains all the available findings better than autogynephilia theory, and which is more consistent with contemporary thinking regarding gender and sexual diversity. I will also demonstrate how autogynephilia theory relies on essentialist, heteronormative, and male-centric presumptions about women and LGBTQ+ people, and as such, it is inconsistent with basic tenets of feminism
Aesthetics · Contradiction · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist theory · Gender identity · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Uma crítica à compreensão parafílica da sexualidade de mulheres transexuais
Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy
Enhancing critical social work practice
Trans truth and the synodal Church
Elaborating and Testing Erotic Target Identity Inversion Theory in Three Paraphilic Samples
Autogynephilia Is a Flawed Framework for Understanding Female Embodiment Fantasies
Autogynephilia and Science
Eros, Image, and the Self
Transgender trouble
The Influence of Authoritarian Beliefs on Support for Transgender Rights in the UK
Transness as insecurity
Interrogating global narratives of trans queerness. Well-being and agency? Or more stories of trans trauma
Trans* Politics
Masculine” Describes Gender Expressions, Not Neurobiologies
From Abstinence to Deviance
If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?” Networked transphobia in lesbian popular culture spaces
A critical analysis of Terf politics in South Korea
Confronting complex alliances
Concepts and Contexts
On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as “Clinical Logic”
How Autogynephilic Are Natal Females
Cut from the Same Cloth? Comparing the Sexuality of Male Cross-Dressers and Transfeminine Individuals Through the Conceptual Framework of Autogynephilia
Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics
The Lenses of Gender
Beauty and Misogyny
Gender Hurts
The Concept of Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male Gender Dysphoria
What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?
An Integrative Paradigm
The Gender Affirmative Model
Gay Rights and Moral Panic
Black Feminist Thought
Feminism and Science
Moral Incongruence and Pornography Use
Identity-Defense Model of Gender-Variant Development
The Case Against Autogynephilia
Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers
Objectification Theory
Parents' Attitudes and Expectations About Children's Cross-Gender Behavior
Frame Variation in Child Protectionist Claims
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Evidence Against a Typology
A Further Assessment of Blanchard’s Typology of Homosexual Versus Non-Homosexual or Autogynephilic Gender Dysphoria
Sexuality of Male-to-Female Transsexuals
Sexual Arousal Associated with Private as Compared to Public Feminine Dressing Among Male-to-Female Transgender Persons
Between DSM and ICD
The classification and labeling of nonhomosexual gender dysphorias
Gay and Bisexual Identity Development Among Female-to-Male Transsexuals in North America
Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7
Good Girls
Sexual fantasy
Blanchard's Autogynephilia Theory
Autogynephilia in Women
When Selves Have Sex
Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness
No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |