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APPENDIX on the masculinity versus femininity scale of Hofstede.
This presentation of Hofstede's analysis of masculinity and femininity in cultures accompanies the Crossdreamer blog post on Gender Identity in Barbie LandGeert Hostede: Table combining data from the...
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Autogynephilia: The Dark Side (original version)
In 2009, when my Crossdreamer blog was young, I wrote a blog post called Autogynephilia, the Dark Side. The whole point of the post was to demask the autogynephilia theory of Dr. Ray Blanchard....
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The DSM-5 on Gender Dysphoria
The psychiatric manual of the American Psychiatric Association, the DSM-5, includes a very important chapter on gender dysphoria, transgender and transsexual. It is actually used actively by...
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The DSM-5 and ICD-11 on Transgender, Gender Dysphoria and Transsexualism
The fact that the DSM-5 text on transgender and transsexual is not available online has become a democratic problem. Transsexual separatist are now misrepresenting the chapter on gender dysphoria for...
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On Anne Vitale's theory on testosterone-poisoning in MTF crossdreamers
Sidebar to the Crossdreamers.com blog post "Does the effects of hormones on transgender prove that crossdreaming has a biological component?"Anne Vitale presents a theory aimed at explaining...
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On male to female hormone replacement therapy
Sidebar to the Crossdreamers.com blog post "Does the effects of hormones on transgender prove that crossdreaming has a biological component?"Illustration: designer491The complexity of the effects sex...
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Autogynephilia defined (original version)
This is the original version of the Crossdreamer.com 2009 introduction of autogynephilia. Since this version could be interpreted as support for the theory, I have replaced it with a new.[Click here...
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The Autogynephilia Theory is in Violation of Basic Research and Health Care...
There can be no doubt that the autogynephilia theory and Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey's research on transgender people are in violation of fundamental ethical principles of both science and...
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Ray Blanchard's Definition of Paraphilia (Perversion)
Blanchard's definition of "paraphilia" (sexual perversion) has absolutely no basis in science, only in his own hang-ups on what constitutes proper sexual behavior.We believe this couple will pass...
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How to Stop Transphobic Bullies
This is a sidebar to the post What Drives Transphobia over at crossdreamers.com.A blogger over at tumblr asked me:What can you do to stop transphobicbullies? (Illustration photo: Photodisc)What is the...
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies on Autogynephilia
This is what the SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies has to say about autogynephilia:'The term autogynephilia was first used in 1989 by Ray Blanchard, a sexologist, to describe a purported class of...
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Is it true that 1/3 of non-transgender people fantasize about being the other...
In my article "More than one third of non-transgender people have had crossgender dreams and fantasies" I have referred to research done by Justin Lehmiller, Daphna Joel and Roi Jacobson that imply...
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Female to Male Crossdreaming in Garden of Desires
Emily Dubberley's collection of female sexual fantasies contains several crossdreamer fantasies, where the respondents dream of being a man, playing the role of a man and/or having a penis.Here are few...
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Can We Trust Science in the Transgender Debate?
Bigoted science has caused tremendous suffering, here represented with a still form the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But does this mean that all science is bad?In my article on the sexologist...
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The word "paraphilia" does indeed mean "sexual perversion". Don't let the...
In some of the online "autogynephilia" debates I come across Blanchard-supporters who tell me that "paraphilia" is a benign term that simply means "unusual". The implicit message is that calling a...
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What Judith Butler Said about TERFs
Here are the censored paragraphs from Guardian's interview with feminist philosopher Judith Butler:Gleeson: “It seems that some within feminist movements are becoming sympathetic to these far-right...
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All you need to know about autogynephilia
Some (relatively) easy to read articles on the autogynephilia theory of Ray Blanchard.The autogynephilia theory has been debunked by both science and the lived lives of real transgender people....
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The transgender relevant terms used by the DSM-5-TR, the revised version of...
The DSM-5 is published by the Americal Psychiatric Association and includes all kinds of diagnoses relevant to mental health. Being transgender is no longer considered a mental illness, but the manual...
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More selected discussions from the Crossdream Life forum on gender variance...
Over at Crossdreamers we presented some selected discussions from the Crossdream Life forum for gender questioning, queer and trans people. In this post we are sharing some more discussions of general...
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The Crossdreamer Newsletter for transgender content
The Crossdreamer blog and the Transgender World site have a common newsletter which can be found over at Substack.All the separate newsletters are published over at Substack, and the Crossdreamer...
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A spotlight on transgender and queer issues from the Crossdream Life forum
Crossdream Life is a forum for discussion of gender variance where members can explore their own identities, discuss transgender and queer issues and in general take a look at whatever it is that...
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What does transgender mean?
Transgender is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of gender variant people, i.e. people who in some way or the other do not follow the traditional and stereotypical norms of what it...
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The Cass Report: The Good, The Bad, The Critical
Dr Max Davie and Dr Lorna Hobbs (photos above) have written a thorough and critical review of the British Cass report on transgender health care for youth. We are taking the liberty of republishing it...
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On the connection between fascism and transphobia
Fascists and the far right are using transphobia as a tool for political manipulation.(Sidebar to "Today's anti-trans activism is about so much more than transgender people").Transphobia and Far-Right...
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