Naomi Salama is a Finnish civil engineer and “autogynephilia” activist.
Naomi Salama on suomalainen rakennusinsinööri ja “autogynefilia”-aktivisti.
Background
Salama was born on July 7, 1998 and grew up in Espoo.
Under the name Janus Syndrome, Salama released an electronic dance music album titled MMXIV in 2014.
Salama attended Aalto University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2020 before continuing on to a master’s degree. In May 2022, Salama began medical transition.
“Autogynephilia” activism
Like a few other neurodiverse trans people with poor social skills, Salama became fixated on an obscure disease model of gender identity and expression created in 1989 by Ray Blanchard. It classifies transgender women into two types: gay men (homosexual transsexuals) and paraphilic men (“autogynephilic” transsexuals). Salama claims to be the “autogynephilic” (AGP) type, which according to Blanchard means Naomi Salama is more likely to be sexually attracted to children, corpses, feces, animals, or have other “paraphilias.”
Most experts and trans people consider this fringe terminology to be scientifically biased and unfalsifiable, but a few isolated activists with personality problems embrace the idea.
“Autogynephilia” as a taxonomy appeals to a very specific type of person: neurodiverse, fixated on collecting and categorizing, socially isolated/eccentric, rigid thinking.
In June 2023 Salama sent me a message titled “add me to your stupid agp activist list you hack.”
hello!
I demand an explanation! why am I overlooked for your ridiculous agp activist list? after all, I seem to be an activist in this in the very literal word — very different to for example the researchers on the list.
I have repeatedly defended Blanchard, Bailey and Hsu and interact with all of them quite frequently. I am also friends with multiple other people on the list — such as Phil Illy or Naxela (why you would add him before me is beyond my comprehension, for example my twitter account @Naozymandias is way larger and I speak of agp way more and more publicly — even being retweetes by Blanchard occasionally)
as an academic myself, tho of different field of study, some of the researchers have urges me to do study into agp myself too, perhaps informally. I plan to do this after first finishing my thesis relating to urban economics.
I am also known to have created multiple “memes” relating to autogynephilia, folder of these has also been shared with multiple people on your list.
as you can clearly tell, I am invested in the subject and certainly should be considered an activist of sorts. this baffles me, why am I not on your list??? that feels rather insulting
thus, I demand to be added immediately
regards
undoubtedly in some sense of the word your enemy,
autogynephilic transsexual,
and student of urban planning and economics
Naomi Salama
Salama spoke with romantic partner Alice Chizita about these bizarre beliefs, then sent a second message clarifying:
while *I* would be glad to be added, my girlfriend hopes I am not, as she would feel bad of that — because she is not in agreement with the typology and “Blanchardism” makes her feel bad and dysphoric.
Hopefully Alice can explain why this ideology is an unhealthy fixation and get Salama professional help. Perhaps Alice can also guide this person toward a better understanding of science. If that is not possible, perhaps Alice can get far away from this toxic person.
References
Salama, [Naomi] (May 3, 2020). Hämeenlinna Skylines: Cities Skylines osallistavan kaupunkisuunnittelun välineenä. Aalto-yliopisto https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/47289
Resources
Facebook (facebook.com)
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Bluesky (bsky.app)
ResearchGate (researchgate.net)
Soundcloud (soundcloud.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)