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For casual readers: Blanchard's theories are widely discredited and "Autogynephile" is considered an impolite term among trans people.


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> Blanchard's work reigns as the clinically accepted typology for patients seeking transition.

False. The clinically accepted typology is 'Gender Dysphoria', as under the DSM-5. The only place AGP is referenced in the DSM is as a subtype of 'Transvestic Disorder' (Transvestic Disorder With Autogynephilia), which is marked explicitly as crossdressing and imagining oneself as a woman solely for sexual purposes. The two diagnoses (Gender Dysphoria and Transvestic Disorder) are distinct from one another and not related.


That has not been the case in the three cities and health systems (edit: in the US) in which I've had transgender care over the past decade.


I've never heard a doctor say those words, I think you're a troll




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