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Jaimie F. Veale is a New Zealand psychologist who has published on transgender sexuality and other gender-related subjects.

Background

Veale completed a doctorate at Massey University in 2012. Veale then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, researching the health of Canadian transgender youth.

In 2015 Veale was appointed Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Waikato.

Veale has served on the Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and has served as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Transgender Health. Veale also helped to establish the University of Waikato Rainbow Staff/Student Alliance. Projects include:

Comments on “autogynephilia”

Veale has attempted to refute Ray Blanchard and the controversial diagnosis of “autogynephilia” by applying Blanchard’s Core Autogynephilia Scale to people who are not trans women. This in effect reified the diagnosis itself, allowing “autogynephilia” activist Anne Lawrence to retort that “Transsexual groups in Veale et al. (2008) are ‘autogynephilic’ and ‘even more autogynephilic.'”

In 2022, Veale and biologist Julia Serano published a paper refuting J. Michael Bailey and Kevin Hsu, who made the claim that “autogynephilia in women” does not exist. Veale and Serano argued that “autogynephilia” is a flawed framework and expanded on Serano’s model of “female embodiment fantasies,”

References

N Adams, R Pearce, J Veale, A Radix, A Sarkar, D Castro By us and for us: bringing ethics into transgender health research SUNY Press

C Garcia, E Grant, GJ Treharne, H Arahanga-Doyle, MFG Lucassen, … ‘Is it worth potentially dealing with someone who won’t get it?’: LGBTQA+ university students’ perspectives on mental health care Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 55 (1), 32-46

S Bailey, Y Perry, K Tan, J Byrne, TH Polkinghorne, NC Newton, J Veale, … Affirming schools, population-level data, and holistic public health are key to addressing mental ill-health and substance use disparities among gender and sexuality diverse  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 48 (5), 100183

L Hamley, E Kerekere, T Nopera, K Tan, J Byrne, J Veale, T Clark The glue that binds us: The positive relationships between whanaungatanga (belonging), the wellbeing, and identity pride for takatāpui who are trans and non‐binary Health Promotion Journal of Australia

C Horton, R Pearce, J Veale, TC Oakes-Monger, KC Pang, …Child rights in trans healthcare–a call to action International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-8

JL Byrne, K Tan, TH Polkinghorne, A Ker, S Bailey, JF Veale Perceived legal protection and institutional trust predict a lower psychological distress level for transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-15

C Garcia, E Grant, GJ Treharne, H Arahanga-Doyle, MFG Lucassen, … ‘We’ll be okay together’: navigating challenges as queer university students in Aotearoa New Zealand Kƍtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 19 (2), 190-206

LR Allen, N Adams, C Dodd, D Ehrensaft, L Fraser, M Garcia, S Giordano, … Clarifying our stance on BMI and accessibility in gender-affirming surgery: a commitment to inclusive care and dialogue–a reply to Castle & Klein (2024) International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-4

S González, JF Veale “It’s just a general lack of awareness, that breeds a sense that there isn’t space to talk about our needs”: barriers and facilitators experienced by transgender people 
 International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-21

LR Allen, N Adams, F Ashley, C Dodd, D Ehrensaft, L Fraser, M Garcia, …Principlism and contemporary ethical considerations for providers of transgender health care International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-19

L Allen, N Adams, F Ashley, C Dodd, D Ehrensaft, L Fraser, M Garcia, … Principlism and Contemporary Ethical Considers in Transgender Health Care

G Parker, A Ker, S Baddock, E Kerekere, J Veale, S Miller “It’s total erasure”: Trans and nonbinary peoples’ experiences of cisnormativity within perinatal care services in Aotearoa New Zealand Women’s Reproductive Health 10 (4), 591-607

S Baddock, S Miller, A Ker, E Kerikeri, J Veale, G Parker O082 A Survey to explore the Knowledge and Education needs of Perinatal Health Professionals to support the Provision of Inclusive Care to Transgender people in Aotearoa New 
Sleep Advances: a Journal of the Sleep Research Society 4 (Suppl 1), A33

JF Veale Transgender-related stigma and gender minority stress-related health disparities in Aotearoa New Zealand: hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke 
 The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific 39

G Parker, S Miller, S Baddock, J Veale, A Ker, E Kerekere Warming the Whare for trans people and whānau in perinatal care Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington

H Thorpe, M Nelson, S Scovel, J Veale Journalists on a journey: Towards responsible media on transgender participation in sport Journalism Studies 24 (9), 1237-1255

A Koehler, J Motmans, L MuliĂł Alvarez, D Azul, K Badalyan, K Basar, … How the COVID-19 pandemic affects transgender health care-A cross-sectional online survey in 63 upper-middle-income and high-income countries International Journal of Transgender Health 24 (3), 346-359

SB Ahmed, LB Beach, JD Safer, JF Veale, CT Whitley Considerations in the care of transgender persons Nature Reviews Nephrology 19 (6), 360-365

R Carroll, KKH Tan, A Ker, JL Byrne, JF Veale Uptake, experiences and barriers to cervical screening for trans and non‐binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 63 (3), 448-453

KKH Tan, JL Byrne, GJ Treharne, JF Veale Unmet need for gender-affirming care as a social determinant of mental health inequities for transgender youth in Aotearoa/New Zealand Journal of Public Health 45 (2), e225-e233

CL Rytz, LB Beach, N Saad, SM Dumanski, D Collister, AM Newbert, … Improving the inclusion of transgender and nonbinary individuals in the planning, completion, and mobilization of cardiovascular research American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology

JM Serano, JF Veale (2022). Autogynephilia is a flawed framework for understanding female embodiment fantasies: A response to Bailey and Hsu (2022). Archives of Sexual Behavior 52 (2), 473-477 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02414-4 [PDF]

J Veale, JJ Bullock, JL Byrne, M Clunie, T Hamilton, J Horton, …PATHA’s vision for transgender healthcare under the current health reforms New Zealand Medical Association 136 (1574), 24-31

J Fenaughty, K Tan, A Ker, J Veale, P Saxton, M Alansari Sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts for young people in New Zealand: Demographics, types of suggesters, and associations with mental health Journal of youth and adolescence 52 (1), 149-164

KKH Tan, JM Schmidt, SJ Ellis, JF Veale, JL Byrne ‘It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’: mental health and wellbeing of transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand Psychology & Sexuality 13 (5), 1109-1121

JF Veale, KKH Tan, JL Byrne Gender identity change efforts faced by trans and nonbinary people in New Zealand: Associations with demographics, family rejection, internalized transphobia, and mental health. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 9 (4), 478

JF Veale, MB Deutsch, AH Devor, LE Kuper, J Motmans, AE Radix, … Setting a research agenda in trans health: An expert assessment of priorities and issues by trans and nonbinary researchers International Journal of Transgender Health 23 (4), 392-408

JL Byrne, KKH Tan, PJ Saxton, RM Bentham, JF Veale PrEP awareness and protective barrier negotiation among transgender people attracted to men in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of the International AIDS Society 25, e25980

S Zwickl, B Chaplin, F Bisshop, T Cook, CTM Soo, B Birtles, J Veale, … Re: The RANZCP position statement on gender dysphoria Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 56 (10), 1217-1218

GJ Treharne, R Carroll, KKH Tan, JF Veale Supportive interactions with primary care doctors are associated with better mental health among transgender people: results of a nationwide survey in Aotearoa/New Zealand Family practice 39 (5), 834-842

KKH Tan, RJ Watson, JL Byrne, JF Veale Barriers to possessing gender-concordant identity documents are associated with transgender and nonbinary people’s mental health in Aotearoa/New Zealand LGBT health 9 (6), 401-410

E Coleman, AE Radix, WP Bouman, GR Brown, ALC De Vries, … Standards of care for the health of transgender and gender diverse people, version 8 International journal of transgender health 23 (sup1), S1-S259

A Ker, RM Shaw, J Byrne, J Veale Access to fertility preservation for trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand Culture, Health & Sexuality 24 (9), 1273-1288

KKH Tan, A Yee, JF Veale “Being trans intersects with my cultural identity”: Social determinants of mental health among Asian transgender people Transgender Health 7 (4), 329-339

KKH Tan, AB Wilson, JAM Flett, BS Stevenson, JF Veale Mental health of people of diverse genders and sexualities in Aotearoa/New Zealand: findings from the New Zealand Mental Health Monitor Health promotion journal of Australia 33 (3), 580-589

T Hamilton, J Veale Transnormativities: Reterritorializing perceptions and practice Rethinking transgender identities, 124-147

T Hamilton, J Veale Transnormativities Rethinking Transgender Identities

VT Schechter, AC Tishelman, MAA Van Trotsenburg, S Winter, K Ducheny, … Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8

J Fenaughty, A Ker, M Alansari, T Besley, E Kerekere, A Pasley, P Saxton, … Identify survey: community and advocacy report

KKH Tan, R Carroll, GJ Treharne, JL Byrne, J Veale ” I teach them. I have no choice”: experiences of primary care among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

J Oliphant, D Barnett, J Veale, S Denny, B Farrant The wellbeing and health needs of a cohort of transgender young people accessing specialist medical gender-affirming healthcare in Auckland

KKH Tan, GJ Treharne, SJ Ellis, JM Schmidt, JF Veale Enacted stigma experiences and protective factors are strongly associated with mental health outcomes of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand International journal of transgender health 22 (3), 269-280

JF Veale The Associations of Genital-Normalizing Surgery and Assigned Gender in Predicting Gender Outcomes: A Pooled Nested Case Study Analysis of 282 Adults with Differences of Sex 
 Urological Science 32 (1), 9-14

H Frohard-Dourlent, E Saewyc, J Veale, T Peter, M MacAulay Conceptualizing gender: Lessons from the Canadian trans youth health survey Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46 (1), 151-176

KKH Tan, GJ Treharne, SJ Ellis, JM Schmidt, JF Veale Gender minority stress: A critical review Journal of homosexuality

RJ Watson, J Veale Introduction: Transgender youth are strong: Resilience among gender expansive youth worldwide Today’s Transgender Youth, 1-4

BA Clark, JF Veale, M Townsend, H Frohard-Dourlent, E Saewyc 4 Non-binary youth Today’s Transgender Youth: Health, Well-being, and Opportunities for 


BA Clark, JF Veale, M Townsend, H Frohard-Dourlent, E Saewyc Non-binary youth: Access to gender-affirming primary health care Today’s Transgender Youth, 44-55

J Brown, J Schmidt, J Veale Reasons for (in) visibility on the university campus: Experiences of gender, sex and sexuality diverse staff and students New Zealand Sociology 35 (1), 153-175

KKH Tan, SJ Ellis, JM Schmidt, JL Byrne, JF Veale Mental health inequities among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from the Counting Ourselves Survey International journal of environmental research and public health 17 (8), 2862

RJ Watson, JF Veale, AR Gordon, BA Clark, EM Saewyc Risk and protective factors for transgender youths’ substance use Preventive medicine reports 15, 100905

KKH Tan, JM Schmidt, SJ Ellis, JF Veale Mental Health of Trans and Gender Diverse People in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Review of the Social Determinants of Inequities. New Zealand Journal of Psychology 48 (2)

J Veale, J Byrne, KKH Tan, S Guy, A Yee, TML Nopera, R Bentham Counting Ourselves: The health and wellbeing of trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand Transgender Health Research Lab

RJ Watson, JF Veale Today’s Transgender Youth Routledge

WP Bouman Transgender and gender diverse people’s involvement in transgender health research International Journal of Transgenderism 19 (4), 357-358

BA Clark, JF Veale, D Greyson, E Saewyc Primary care access and foregone care: a survey of transgender adolescents and young adults Family practice 35 (3), 302-306

RJ Watson, J Veale Transgender youth are strong: Resilience among gender expansive youth worldwide International Journal of Transgenderism 19 (2), 115-118

J Oliphant, J Veale, J Macdonald, R Carroll, R Johnson, M Harte, … Guidelines for gender affirming healthcare for gender diverse and transgender children, young people and adults in Aotearoa New Zealand Transgender Health Research Lab

JF Veale, T Peter, R Travers, EM Saewyc Enacted stigma, mental health, and protective factors among transgender youth in Canada Transgender health 2 (1), 207-216

N Adams, R Pearce, J Veale, A Radix, D Castro, A Sarkar, KC Thom Guidance and ethical considerations for undertaking transgender health research and institutional review boards adjudicating this research Transgender health 2 (1), 165-175

RJ Watson, JF Veale, EM Saewyc Disordered eating behaviors among transgender youth: Probability profiles from risk and protective factors International journal of eating disorders 50 (5), 515-522

JF Veale Reflections on transgender representation in academic publishing International Journal of Transgenderism 18 (2), 121-122

F Pega, SL Reisner, RL Sell, JF Veale Transgender health: New Zealand’s innovative statistical standard for gender identity American journal of public health 107 (2), 217-221

K Furness, MN Williams, J Veale, DH Gardner Maximising potential: The psychological effects of the youth development programme Project K New Zealand Psychological Society 46 (1), 14-23

JF Veale, RJ Watson, T Peter, EM Saewyc (2017). Mental health disparities among Canadian transgender youth. Journal of Adolescent Health 60 (1), 44-49 265 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.09.014

BA Clark, JF Veale, M Townsend, H Frohard-Dourlent, E Saewyc (2018). Non-binary youth: Access to gender-affirming primary health care. International Journal of Transgenderism 19 (2), 158-169 125 2018 https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2017.1394954

RJ Watson, JF Veale, EM Saewyc (2017). Disordered eating behaviors among transgender youth: Probability profiles from risk and protective factors. International Journal of Eating Disorders 50 (5), 515-522 126 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22627

JF Veale, T Peter, R Travers, EM Saewyc (2017). Enacted stigma, mental health, and protective factors among transgender youth in Canada. Transgender Health 2 (1), 207-216 116 2017 https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0031

N Adams, R Pearce, J Veale, A Radix, D Castro, A Sarkar, KC Thom (2017). Guidance and ethical considerations for undertaking transgender health research and institutional review boards adjudicating this research. Transgender Health 2 (1), 165-175 114 2017 https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0012

J Veale, EM Saewyc, H Frohard-Dourlent, S Dobson, B Clark (2015). Being safe, being me: Results of the Canadian trans youth health survey. Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) 146 2015 [PDF] https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/Diff/gahps/SARAVYC_Trans%20Youth%20Health%20Report_EN_Final_Web.pdf

F Pega, JF Veale (2015). The case for the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health to address gender identity. American Journal of Public Health 105 (3), e58-e62 https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302373

Veale JF. Evidence against a typology: a taxometric analysis of the sexuality of male-to-female transsexuals (2014). Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2014 Aug;43(6):1177-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0275-5. Epub 2014 Mar 12.

Veale J, Clark DE, Lomax TC (2012). Male-to-female transsexuals’ impressions of Blanchard’s autogynephilia theory. International Journal of Transgenderism. 13 (3): 131–139. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2011.669659.

Veale JF, Lomax T, Clarke D (2010). “Identity-Defense Model of Gender-Variant Development”. International Journal of Transgenderism. 12 (3): 125–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2010.514217

JF Veale, DE Clarke, TC Lomax (2010). Biological and psychosocial correlates of adult gender-variant identities: A review. Personality and Individual Differences 48 (4), 357-366 93 2010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.09.018

Veale JF, Clarke DE, Lomax TC (August 2008). Sexuality of male-to-female transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (4): 586–597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-007-9306-9

JF Veale (2008). Prevalence of transsexualism among New Zealand passport holders. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 42 (10), 887-889 93 2008 https://doi.org/10.1080/00048670802345490

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

University of Waikato (waikato.ac.nz)

  • Dr Jaimie F. Veale
  • waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/jveale [2017–2022 – archive]

X/Twitter (x.com)

Google Scholar (scholar.google.co.nz/)

Note: In 2025, this site phased out AI illustrations after artist feedback. The previous illustration is here.

Susan Evans is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Evans was a key critic of trans healthcare for gender diverse youth at the Tavistock. The clinic was later closed.

Evans and spouse Marcus Evans co-authored the 2021 book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.

Evans is involved with SPLC-designated hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

Background

Evans worked for 12 years at the Tavistock in the Adult Department, Youth Gender Identity Service and for the Portman Clinic in Probation officer supervision and as Programme Organiser and senior clinical lecturer. Evans was also a Senior Fellow of the University of East London.

Evans has been a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service, and the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). 

2021 book

The following people are mentioned in the acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the following people who have generously given their time and expertise to the development of this book: Annie Pesskin, Ian Williamson, Richard Stephens, Margot Waddell, Frances Grier, and Ema Syrulnik, as well as all our colleagues at the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. We are grateful to Kate Pearce at Phoenix for offering to publish this book.

2022 Tavistock closure

Evans was involved in the attacks on gender affirming care for gender diverse you at the Tavistock clinic, a federally funded gatekeeping facility with unethically long wait times due to underfunding.

Evans’ version of things was reported via anti-trans activist Bari Weiss:

I was a nurse working on a team that recklessly prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. I blew the whistle in 2005. Now the government is finally listening.

References

Evans, Sue (August 4, 2022). How Tavistock Came Tumbling Down. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/how-tavistock-came-tumbling-down

Resources

Evans Psychotherapy (evanspsychotherapy.co.uk)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Jamie Faye Fenton is an American computer programmer and game developer best known for work on the 1981 game Gorf and what became Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks), a precursor of the software Flash. Fenton was also an early innovator in creating the “video glitch” visual aesthetic.

After making a gender transition in the late 1990s, Fenton became an important figure in the transgender community for creating early online transgender resources in the 1990s. In 1995, with Cindy Martin and JoAnn Roberts, Fenton created and launched tgforum.com, an online forum for transgender people.

Background

Jamie Faye Fenton was born on April 25, 1954. Fenton attended University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the early 1970s. Fenton has created several notable early works of digital art and software:

  • Datsun 280 ZZZAP (1976)
  • Checkmate (1977)
  • Digital TV Dinner (1978)
  • Bally Astrocade BASIC (1980)
  • Gorf (1981)
  • Robby Roto (1981)

Fenton made a gender transition around 1998.

Comments on Bailey (2003)

In 2003, Fenton got involved in the controversy involving the book The Man Who Would Be Queen by anti-trans sexologist J. Michael Bailey. One issue was Bailey’s promotion of the concept of “autogynephilia,” a disputed “paraphilia” created by Ray Blanchard in 1989 as part of a sexualized way to divide transfeminine people into two groups:

  • “Homosexual transsexuals,” whom Blanchard considers gay males with a fetish for straight men
  • “Autogynephilic transsexuals,” whom Blanchard considers straight males with autoerotic interest in feminization

Bailey’s popularization of Blanchard’s ideas was a turning point in transgender history, where the community united in condemnation of this harmful book.

Fenton was one of the few trans people who did not condemn Bailey’s book outright, writing about “autogynephilia” as if it were settled science and reifying it as an acceptable term. Fenton was also a prominent member of an online “autogynephilia support” group. Fenton published an essay called “The Lemonade Stand of Desire” and promoted an idiosyncratic “dual motive theory,” part of writings about why people are transgender. In 2004, we corresponded at length after I put up a version of this page criticizing Fenton’s involvement and writings.

In 2012, Fenton requested that I remove this page. Fenton said the posts that I quoted “do not represent my views on the subject.”

Comments on Dreger (2016)

In 2015, historian Alice Dreger published Galileo’s Middle Finger, which reprints Dreger’s defense of Bailey that was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a journal edited by Bailey, Blanchard, and other “autogynephilia” activists. At the same time, the journal’s editor Kenneth Zucker was being investigated for performing reparative therapy on gender-expansive children at Toronto clinic CAMH. Zucker was fired that year and the clinic was shuttered.

On March 27, 2016, Fenton and GenderPeace forum founder “Emily Hobbie” launched “autogynephilia” blogs on the same day, apparently in response to the Lambda Literary Foundation’s decision to rescind a nomination for Dreger’s book. Via The Advocate:

Reading through Dreger’s writings, it is hard to find many differences between her positions and those of intensely transphobic sources like The Federalist or hate groups like the FRC. All of them oppose the idea that transgender women are women. They all take the position that gender identity isn’t real, and they deny the lived experiences of transgender people. They all support autogynephilic theory, which is used primarily to label transgender people as sexual deviants. All of them oppose laws against reparative therapy. All of them oppose affirming models of care for transgender youth.

Tannehill (2016)

Dreger wrote an open letter denouncing Lambda Literary Foundation for their decision, and “Hobbie” and Fenton came out with new blogs simultaneously. Dreger is notorious for attempting to create the appearance of consensus for fringe ideas. It’s a shame that Fenton doubled down by siding with Dreger, further tarnishing a previously excellent legacy of service to the community.

References

Cates, Jon; Kinkley, Jonathan; Fenton, Jamie (2023). Stability Isn’t Everything It’s Glitched Up to Be: An Interview with Jamie Fenton. Art Institute Chicago https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/36/perspectives-on-instability/16/stability-isnt-everything-its-glitched-up-to-be-an-interview-with-jamie-fenton

Riedel, Samantha (November 22, 2023). This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet. them https://www.them.us/story/early-trans-internet-archive

Pow, Whit (January 1, 2021). A Trans Historiography of Glitches and Errors. Feminist Media Histories. 7 (1): 197–230. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.197 full text: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article-abstract/7/1/197/115939/A-Trans-Historiography-of-Glitches-and-Errors

Pow, Whit (2020). Stored in Memory: Recovering Queer and Transgender Life in Software History. Letters and Science https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/stored-in-memory-recovering-queer-and-transgender-life-in-software-history/ [not archived] https://www.proquest.com/openview/1605775af4a8e04c2d2b90faad6b7fef/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=44156

Cates, Jon (2018). Chicago New Media, 1973-1992. University of Illinois Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-252-08407-2.

Betancourt, Michael (2017). The Invention of Glitch Video. https://www.michaelbetancourt.com/pdf/Betancourt_TheInventionofGlitchVideo.pdf [archive] https://www.academia.edu/66641089/The_Invention_of_Glitch_Video_Digital_TV_Dinner_1978_

Dreger, Alice (March 24, 2016). An Open Letter to the Lambda Literary Foundation. https://alicedreger.com/llf/

Tannehill, Brynn (March 25, 2016). Lambda Literary Foundation Snuffs Out Anti-Trans Scandal.The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/3/25/lambda-literary-foundation-snuffs-out-anti-trans-scandal

Torchinsky, Jason (October 30, 2014). Datsun Was The First Car Maker To Officially Brand A Video Game. Jalopnik https://jalopnik.com/datsun-was-the-first-car-maker-to-officially-brand-a-vi-1652829922

Donovan, Tristan (2010). Replay : The History of Video Games. Yellow Ant. pp. 74-75; p. 141. ISBN 978-0-9565072-0-4

Fenton, Jamie Faye (~2004). The Dual Motive Theory of Secondary Transsexuality. http://www.jamiefaye.com/dmt/index.html

Fenton, Jamie Faye (January 19, 2004). The Lemonade Stand of Desire. http://www.jamiefaye.com/lemonadestand.html

Newitz, Annalee (August 23, 2001). Secrets of Ms. Gorf. MetroActive https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.23.01/work-0134.html

Resources

Fentonia (fentonia.com)

Jamie Faye (jamiefaye.com) [archive]

TG Forum (tgforum.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

WordPress (wordpress.com)

The earlier version of this profile that includes our extensive correspondence was at this URL: https://www.tsroadmap.com/info/jamie-faye-fenton.html [archive]

Marta Meana is a Spanish-American psychologist and anti-transgender activist deeply involved in publishing and promoting disease models of gender identity and expression, with a focus on sexualized taxonomies of transgender people like “autogynephilia.”

Background

Meana was born in Madrid, Spain on December 1, 1957. Meana attended McGill University, earning a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree before earning a doctorate in 1996, writing a dissertation on dyspareunia. Meana had a post-doctoral research fellowship in women’s health at the University of Toronto.

Meana joined the psychology department at University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1997. From 2018 to 2020, Meana was interim President of UNLV. Meana retired in 2024.

Comments on Dreger (2008)

In 2008, Meana wrote a peer commentary in response to Alice Dreger’s attacks on trans activists in Archives of Sexual Behavior:

After years of following the developments surrounding the publication of TMWWBQ in real time, it was interesting to step back and read Dreger’s comprehensive reconstruction of events. The story that emerges is reminiscent of classical drama. It comes complete with a protagonist (Bailey), antagonists (Conway, James, McCloskey), characters caught in the crossfire (Kyeltika), and a balanced and half-detached chorus (Dreger) explaining to the audience (the rest of us) the lessons to be learned from the melee. Mercifully, this drama did not end up a tragedy, but it shares significant qualities with the latter. It features a well-meaning, though necessarily flawed, protagonist with the requisite amount of hubris and a group of antagonists whose sordid means nullify any possible empathy the audience may have had with their perceived injury. The chorus seems open-minded and fair, although perhaps a little naïve in her belief in the healing power of her narrative.

Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies (2013)

Meana was editor of Anne Lawrence‘s book on “autogynephilia” titled Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies.

References

Staff report (September 23, 2024). Join Us to Celebrate the Retirement of Marta Meana. https://www.unlv.edu/news/unlvtoday/join-us-celebrate-retirement-marta-meana

UNLV Media Relations (June 4, 2018). Regents Name Marta Meana Acting UNLV President. https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/regents-name-marta-meana-acting-unlv-president

Meana, Marta (2013). Gender Identity Diagnoses: History and Controversies. In Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development (pp.137-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7441-8_7

Meana, Marta (2008). The Drama of Sex, Identity, and the “Queen.” Archives of Sexual Behavior https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9324-2

Resources

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (unlv.edu)

Natalie Wynn is an American cultural critic whose YouTube channel Contrapoints won a 2022 Peabody Award in the Immersive & Interactive category.

Background

Wynn was born on October 21, 1988 in Arlington, Virginia and grew up in nearby Vienna. Wynn’s parent William is a psychology professor at Georgetown, and parent Marian is a doctor. Wynn has two siblings who also went to Georgetown.

Wynn studied piano at Berklee College of Music, earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 2012, and a master’s degree from Northwestern University, then decided not to pursue a doctorate. Wynn did gig work before becoming a video essayist in 2008. Wynn’s work is considered part of “BreadTube,” a loose affiliation of YouTubers who posted videos to challenge right-wing views on subjects.

In 2016, Wynn began the ContraPoints channel. In 2017, Wynn came out as trans and removed all pre-transition videos. In 2020 Wynn came out as lesbian.

Video essays

2024

  • Twilight

2023

  • The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

2022

  • The Hunger

2021

  • Envy
  • J.K. Rowling

2020

  • Voting
  • Justice
  • Cringe
  • Shame
  • Canceling

2019

  • Opulence
  • Men
  • “Transtrenders”
  • Beauty
  • Gender Critical
  • The Darkness
  • “Are Traps Gay?”

2018

  • The Apocalypse
  • Pronouns
  • The Aesthetic
  • Incels
  • The West
  • Tiffany Tumbles
  • Jordan Peterson

2017

  • What’s Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2)
  • America: Still Racist
  • Autogynephilia
  • What’s Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1)
  • Violence
  • Degeneracy
  • The Left
  • Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a Fascist

References

Weiss, Max (June 2024). Who Exactly Is Natalie Wynn? Baltimore Magazine https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/natalie-wynn-viral-baltimore-youtuber-profile/

Peabody Awards (2023). ContraPoints: Natalie Wynn (YouTube) https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/contrapoints/

Nancy Jo, Sales (June 17, 2021). ‘The internet is about jealousy’: YouTube muse ContraPoints on cancel culture and compassion. The Guardian. [archive] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/17/contrapoints-natalie-wynn-youtube-interview

Fleishman, Jeffrey (June 12, 2019). Transgender YouTube star ContraPoints tries to change alt-right minds. Los Angeles Times. [archive] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-st-transgender-youtuber-contrapoints-cultural-divide-20190612-story.html

McCrea, Aisling; Robinson, Nathan J. (June 9, 2019). Interview: Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints. Current Affairs. [archive] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/06/interview-natalie-wynn-of-contrapoints

Mark, Clifton (January 6, 2019). ContraPoints Is Political Philosophy Made for YouTube. The Atlantic. [archive] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/

N.B. (December 20, 2018). The transgender populist fighting fascists with face glitter. The Economist. [archive] https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/21/the-transgender-populist-fighting-fascists-with-face-glitter

Marantz, Andrew (November 19, 2018). The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination. The New Yorker. [archive] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-stylish-socialist-who-is-trying-to-save-youtube-from-alt-right-domination

Cross, Katherine (August 24, 2018). The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction. The Verge. [archive] https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn

Robinson, Nathan J. (May 6, 2018). God Bless ContraPoints. Current Affairs. [archive] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/god-bless-contrapoints

Resources

Contrapoints (contrapoints.com)

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“Emily Hobbie” is the pseudonym of an American transgender activist who created one of the important early transgender forums, GenderPeace. The support forum was active from 2002 until it was eventually ruined by transgender troll Denise Magner. The site went offline in 2008.

Background

“”Emily Hobbie” was born in 1969 and graduated from Brookland-Cayce High School in 1987. “Hobbie” earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Virginia in 1991. “Hobbie” worked at Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation in 1992, designing the space frame fuselage of the Perseus A, NASA’s Small High Altitude Science Aircraft (SHASA). From 1992 to 1993, “Hobbie” worked in the UVa Department of Applied Mechanics as a graduate research assistant. Hobbie then worked at Blue Cross/Blue Shield in several techincal roles from 1994 to 2015.

“Autogynephilia” activism

“Hobbie” began having significant personal life issues in 2009, and by 2015, Hobbie had turned to Alice Dreger for attention and validation, as Denise Magner and many other indigent trans people had done previously. At some point, “Hobbie” became an “autogynephilia” activist.

In 2016, “Hobbie” read Dreger’s book Galileo’s Middle Finger and began getting involved in the trans community response, almost all of which was negative. When the Lambda Literary Foundation rescinded their nomination of the book for a possible award in March, “Hobbie” sprung into action defending Dreger. “Hobbie” and fellow “autogynephilia” activist Jamie Faye Fenton launched blogs supporting Dreger on the same day in March 2016. This was the only entry by “Hobbie”:

I hate “AGP” as it’s misrepresented. Here is my representation.

I think the way I experience what I think of as my gender is most intensely is during sex. I suspect this is true for the vast majority of people and part and parcel of being sexual beings. I don’t believe in a “true” gender any more than a “true” sex — sex and gender are both way complicated — but I do think that the gender I feel most keenly during sexual arousal is the gender that makes the sense for me to live by, and happily tracks with the gender my sexual partners and society in general relate to me as much more naturally than that suggested by my XY chromosome or naughty bits with which I was born.

“Hobbie” (2016)

“Hobbie,” under the username TugWildGeese, created a single-purpose account on Wikipedia and used it between April 6 and 10, 2016 to puff up Dreger’s biography.

As with Magner, there’s a lot more to this sad tale. It’s a shame that someone whose legacy would have been fondly remembered tacked on this unfortunate epilogue during a time of personal crisis.

References

“Hobbie, Emily” (March 27, 2016). I hate “AGP” as it’s misrepresented. Here is my representation. genderpeaceblog https://genderpeaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/i-hate-agp/

Resources

GenderPeace (genderpeace.com) [archive]

WordPress (wordpress.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Candace Owens is a conservative American writer and anti-transgender activist. Owens is part of a group of conspiracy theorists involved in “transvestigations,” where they make claims that public figures are secretly transgender.

Background

Candace Amber Owens was born on April 29, 1989. Owens grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, graduated from Stamford High School, and attended University of Rhode Island, dropping out before completing a degree. After an internship at Vogue, Owens worked at a private equity firm in administration.

Owens married George Farmer in 2019. They have two children.

In 2021, Owens joined The Daily Wire and hosted Candace, a political talk show. Owens left Daily Wire in March 2024, reportedly over remarks about Israel.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2017, Owens supported banning transgender people without bottom surgery from serving in the United States military.

In 2022, Owens falsely claimed the Robb Elementary School shooter could be transgender.

In 2022, Owens described Drag Queen Story Hour as “child abuse,” adding that parents who take their children “should have their children taken away from them.”

In 2022, Owens said that society would benefit by discriminating more against transgender and non-binary people.

In 2023, Owens said “It is worse than Jim Crow laws because we are mutilating the bodies of children. […] It is Frankenstein. These are human experiments that are being performed on children.”

In February 2025 Owens released Becoming Brigitte, a “transvestigation” into Brigitte Macron, First Lady of France and spouse of French president Emmanuel Macron. Owens concludes that Brigitte Macron is trans, and there’s a vast conspiracy to keep this information hidden.

References

Smith, Ian (February 4, 2025). Why are false rumours about Brigitte Macron being transgender resurfacing? MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-are-false-rumours-about-brigitte-macron-being-transgender-resurfacing/ar-AA1yom8r

Staff report (April 6, 2023). Candace Owens says the existence of trans people is “worse than Jim Crow laws.” Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-says-existence-trans-people-worse-jim-crow-laws

Assunção, Muri (December 13, 2022). Candace Owens calls for discrimination against trans, nonbinary people: ‘Society would be safer if we discriminated more’. New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-cancace-owens-discrimination-trans-nonbinary-people-sam-brinton-20221213-irewcydb2jg4bgwgdarw2jgupi-story.html

Sardarizadeh, Shayan; Devlin, Kayleen (May 27, 2022). Texas shooting: How false rumours spread that gunman was trans. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/61607042

Yurcaba, Jo; Goggin, Ben; Collins, Ben (May 25, 2022). Trans woman’s photo used to spread baseless online theory about Texas shooter. NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-womans-photo-used-spread-baseless-online-theory-texas-shooter-rcna30511

Alcorn, Chauncey (June 23, 2018). Critics call out Candace Owens’ transphobic views and want Kanye West, Caitlyn Jenner to do the same. Mic [archive] https://mic.com/articles/189887/critics-call-out-candace-owens-transphobic-views-and-want-kanye-west-caitlyn-jenner-to-do-same

Bernstein, Joseph (May 15, 2018). The Newest Star of the Trump Movement Ran a Trump-Bashing Publication â€“ Less Than Two Years Ago. BuzzFeed [archive] https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-newest-star-of-the-trump-movement-ran-a-trump-bashing

Resources

GLAAD Accountability Project (glaad.org/gap)

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Paul Garcia-Ryan is a conservative American social worker and ex-transgender activist. Garcia-Ryan believes people under age 26 should not get trans healthcare under an informed consent model.

Do not go to Garcia-Ryan for therapy. If you are a minor forced to see Garcia-Ryan, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find a supportive local therapist.

Background

Paul A. Garcia-Ryan was born on June 17, 1991. At age 15, Garcia-Ryan reportedly met with a therapist about gender identity and expression.

As an adult, Garcia-Ryan began using the name Charlotte Garcia-Ryan and took medical transition steps.

Garcia-Ryan earned a bachelor’s degree from Alfred University in 2014 and a master’s degree from Hunter College in 2018.

In 2021, at age 30, Garcia-Ryan made additional gender changes following reportedly poor surgical results.

Practice

Garcia-Ryan is president of Therapy First, a directory of therapists who believe they should be paid to determine if trans and gender diverse people should be allowed to undertake medical transition steps.

Garcia-Ryan has been affiliated with the Open Therapy Institute and was listed with these therapists:

  • Camilo Ortiz
  • Katherine Cullen
  • Neil Kressel
  • Paul Garcia-Ryan

That site stated: “Paul Garcia-Ryan is a New York City based psychotherapist providing care to a wide variety of patients, including gay and lesbian adults who don’t feel they have a place in LGBT culture and individuals/families facing gender related challenges.”

Garcia-Ryan feels that young adults should not be allowed to make a gender transition unless they pay for “gender exploratory therapy” from Garcia-Ryan or other conservative colleagues.

Garcia-Ryan is listed on the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association site. “Gender exploratory therapy” is a non-affirming model of care. The American Academy of Pediatrics calls this practice “delayed transition” and advises against it.

Garcia-Ryan’s promotional site includes quotes from anti-trans activists Lisa Marchiano, Leonore Tiefer, and Lisa Selin Davis.

Ex-transgender activism

Garcia-Ryan was an invited participant at a 2023 anti-trans conference organized by the SLPC-designated hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine.

In 2024, Garcia-Ryan was featured in a New York Times article by anti-trans activist Pamela Paul. Garcia-Ryan stated:

“When a professional affirms a gender identity for a younger person, what they are doing is implementing a psychological intervention that narrows a person’s sense of self and closes off their options for considering what’s possible for them.”

Paul (2024)

References

OTI (November 7, 2024). Coming soon: OTI shines light on overlooked clinical populations with Dr. Phil. Open Therapy Institute https://opentherapyinstitute.substack.com/p/whats-new-at-the-open-therapy-institute-3fb

Ryan, Benjamin (October 19, 2024). Pain, confusion and compassion: How the US has reached a trans ‘tipping point.’ New York Post https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/pain-confusion-compassion-how-the-us-has-reached-a-trans-tipping-point/

Kirkey, Sharon (July 17, 2024). Kids identifying as transgender need ‘talk therapy,’ not drugs, therapists say. National Post https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/transgender-gender-dysphoria-treatment

Ryan, Benjamin (February 24, 2024). A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids. New York Post https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/opinion/a-finnish-study-is-changing-how-we-approach-trans-kids/

Staff report (February 14, 2024). Young adults tell of irreparable damage caused in teens by trans-affirming medics. Christian Institute https://www.christian.org.uk/news/young-adults-tell-of-irreparable-damage-caused-in-teens-by-trans-affirming-medics/

McGhee White, Kaylee (February 8, 2024). For these detransitioners, there’s no reversing the cost of gender ideology’s lies. Washington Examiner https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2843144/for-these-detransitioners-theres-no-reversing-the-cost-of-gender-ideologys-lies/

Foley, Ryan (February 7, 2024). Founder of first pediatric gender clinic in the US fears providers are rushing gender transitions. Christian Post https://www.christianpost.com/news/doctors-are-rushing-gender-transition-process-psychologist-warns.html

Alexander, Harriet (February 3, 2024). Gay teens who couldn’t come to terms with their sexuality share how they removed their breasts and genitals in false hope that becoming transgender would ‘cure’ them, as concerns mount that ‘gender-affirming care’ for children is homophobic. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13040507/transgender-children-gay-teenagers-surgery-hormones-detransition.html

Hays, Gabriel (February 2, 2024). Detransitioners open up to NY Times about feeling abandoned, harm of ‘gender-affirming care:’ ‘It’s a mess.’ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/detransitioners-open-ny-times-feeling-abandoned-harm-gender-affirming-care-mess

Paul, Pamela (February 2, 2024). As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html

Action Network (2024). Raising the Alarm on Gender Identity Change Efforts Disguised as Talk Therapy. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/raising-the-alarm-on-gender-identity-change-efforts-disguised-as-talk-therapy [archive]

SPLC (December 12, 2023). Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network. https://www.splcenter.org/captain/defining-pseudoscience-network

Reed, Erin (January 13, 2023). Unpacking ‘gender exploratory therapy,’ a new form of conversion therapy. Xtra https://xtramagazine.com/health/gender-exploratory-therapy-243833

Selected writing by Garcia-Ryan

Garcia-Ryan, Paul (April 18, 2024). Opinion: A new report roils the debate on youth gender care. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/18/cass-review-young-people-gender-transition/

  • Resposes https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/25/cass-review-transgender-kids-treatment/

Resources

Paul Garcia-Ryan (paulgarciaryan.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Licensure

  • NPI 1326685694
  • NY License # 093503

Brooklyn Holistic Therapy (brooklynholisticpsychotherapy.com)

Open Therapy Institute (opentherapyinstitute.org)

Therapy First (therapyfirst.org)

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Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)

  • Paul Garcia-Ryan
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Angel Eduardo is an American anti-transgender activist.

Background

Angel Lemuel Eduardo was born in March 1985 and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Eduardo earned a bachelor’s degree from New Jersey City University in 2008 and a master’s degree from Hunter College in 2015.

Eduardo was in the band Blue Food from 2008 to 2016 and contributed to NewsCult.com while doing research for TitleVest. Eduardo the wrote for Action Without Borders (also known as Idealist) from 2019 to 2021.

Eduardo has been a columnist for Center for Inquiry since 2020, and advisor for Greenhouse Scholars since 2022.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2021, Eduardo defended a transphobic special by Dave Chappelle.

Since 2022, Eduardo has been writing for anti-trans publication Quillette.

Eduardo joined Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism in 2022, quickly rising to board chair.

Eduardo joined Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression as a senior writer in 2023.

Eduardo joined the Institute for Liberal Values as an advisor in 2023.

References

Eduardo, Angel (October 27, 2021). ‘The Closer’ Isn’t About Laughing at Trans People. It’s About Laughing at Yourself | Opinion. Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/closer-isnt-about-laughing-trans-people-its-about-laughing-yourself-opinion-1643101

Resources

Angel Eduardo (angeleduardo.com)

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Diane Frank is a American crossdressing activist. Frank was Director of Outreach and Communications for the Alpha Omega Society AOS), a group which split from Tri-Ess, a national crossdressing group. AOS became inactive in 2005.

The Man Who Would Be Queen

In 2003 Frank was quoted on the Joseph Henry Press site promoting anti-trans book The Man Who Would Be Queen, though the full comments are much more reflective of Frank’s views:

Mike Bailey has finally published his book “The Man Who Would be Queen”.  Drawing heavily on Blanchard (see above), Bailey describes in a readable form a theory that works as follows:  Boys who are feminine will mostly grow up to be gay, and a few will become what I’ll call transkids.  These transkids often go through a ‘gay boy’ phase before seeking to transition.  Like gay men, these people who seek sex changes early in life are promiscuous, or “boy crazy” in one observer’s mind.  They also seek to become exotically beautiful women and seek heterosexual men as partners.  To the extent that so many of these kids are throw aways whose parents cannot face their gender differences, Bailey may be again confusing cause and effect when he talks about promiscuity, sex work and the like in these cases.  But it is clear that he does not regard them wholly as women. (According to one ex-trans kid I’ve corresponded with, they don’t care!)   Boys who are not particularly feminine discover crossdressing at puberty, and it is an erotic turn on. For some the turn on becomes focused on the idea of actually having a woman’s body, although Bailey cites examples of fantasies about being in a women’s knitting circle as being in this category as well.  Blanchard called this kind of eroticism ‘autogynephilia’.  Few people like this transition early in life, instead they attempt to cope with a forbidden eroticism, get conventional jobs, marry, have children and so forth.  Some will, in middle age find themselves unable to cope with the accumulated desires and ideation and find it impossible to live  further as men.  Thus, one kind of transsexuality is related to ‘gayness’, while another kind is related to a sexual kink shared with ‘heterosexual crossdressers’.  In either case he believes the cause is not a question of moral weakness or bad parenting, but instead is the result of variations in brain development.  In other words, it’s not anyone’s fault.

Bailey is not unsympathetic to the plight of either kind, and states emphatically and forcefully that old notions of morality do nothing to help the individuals or improve the situation.  He believes the distress caused by these conditions is real, and some people can and should be treated by sexual reassignment.   He also notes that the general public finds ‘homosexual transsexuals’ understandable and is generally sympathetic to them, while not understanding and being totally unsympathetic to either crossdressers or late transitioning transsexual’s alleged sexual motivation.  He is also emphatic about not believing stories from late transitioning transsexuals or heterosexual crossdressers that don’t acknowledge autogynephilia as part of their being.

I’ll keep my comments brief on this right now:   While Bailey and Blanchard are correct in recognizing the existence of ‘autogenyphilia’ as a possible sometime motivator for some late transitioning transsexuals and some heterosexual crossdressers, they confuse cause and effect.  We know that there is massive rewiring of the during adolescence.  The question of which comes first at this point, identification with the other gender and then a variant eroticism or variant eroticism followed by identification with the other gender.  This is a difficult question and I suspect that the answer is that both occur.  The other point that Blanchard, Bailey and the rest seem to willfully overlook is about outcomes.  Face it, marriages generally don’t occur in Western Societies where people pick their own mates because of sincere devotion, admiration, understanding and mutual respect…and sex comes along as the caboose on the train.  We live in a sex saturated society because the sex drive does come first…but out of it come devoted couples who admire, understand and respect each other.  Thus the real question isn’t so much why or about categories, but what circumstances can create positive outcomes from these variations, just as we expect positive outcomes from typical heterosexuality? So much of human experience rises from the muck.  What we should look for are the transcendent outcomes that show paths to being better people.

In August, Frank sent this follow-up note:

I got a rather snarky reply from Mautner
but they’ve pulled our quote from the website
I had suggested that if they really wanted the proper context for quoting me they should substitute as follows:

If you really must quote us, how about “yet another version of the idea that crossdressing is only and always about sexuality (and transsexuality is just an extreme version of it), presented as if it were based on science but lacking a scientific foundation. Read it so you know what you’ll have to deal with”

Abnormal Psychology

Ms. Frank also excerpted relevant passages from a common anti-trans textbook taught in American colleges at the time: Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life (11th Edition)

authors:

References

Frank, Diane (2004). Psychiatric Writings. http://www.aosoc.org/Webmistress_Choices/psychiatric_writings.htm [archive]

Resources

The Alpha Omega Society (aosoc.org) [2003–2005 – archive]

  • Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life excerpts
  • http://www.aosoc.org/Webmistress_Choices/AbnormalPsychandModernLife.htm [archive]