r/autogynephilia

Feminist Books

• Whipping Girl — Julia Serano 366 pp.
• Blending Genders — Richard Ekins and Dave King 389 pp.
• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution — Shiri Eisner 386 pp.
• Enemy Feminisms — Sophie Lewis 379 pp.
• Tell Me What You Want — Justin J. Lehmiller 299 pp.

Academic Books

• The Man Who Would Be Queen — J. Michael Bailey 240 pp.
• Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies — Anne A. Lawrence 534 pp.
• Autoheterosexual — Phil Illy 611 pp.
• Practical Guide to Paraphilia and Paraphilic Disorders — Richard Balon 386 pp.

Academic Articles

• Erotic Target Identity Inversions Among Men and Women in an Internet Sample — Ashley Brown, Edward D. Barker, and Qazi Rahman 45 pp.
• A Treatment-Oriented Typology of Self-Identified Hypersexuality Referrals — James M. Cantor et al. 36 pp.
• Self-reported childhood maltreatment and erotic target identity inversions among men with paraphilic infantilism — Johannes Fuss, Laura Jais, B. Terrance Grey, Sascha R. Guczka, Peer Briken & Sarah V. Biedermann 41 pp.

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Would be cool to get people's thoughts on these texts and recommendations for other texts that come to mind when you read them. The sidebar reading list looks great, and I've already started delving into it, but yeah I don't know, feel free to recommend me one of two of them that deals most with how and why the attraction can maybe uniquely lead to a shame spiral in some environments that other niche attractions wouldn't.

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For anyone confused why these texts are archived on the niche anti-fascist archive that is The Ted K Archive, there’s a rumor going around in right-wing spaces online that – in its most bizarre iteration – has people believing that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was coaxed into gender identity issues by woke Jewish academics and psychiatrists. That he saw through their lies and fought back with bombs to try to strike back against this global conspiracy. 

Quoting one of these right-wingers:

>Ted was coaxed into gender identity issues by Academics and when he went to a gender clinic in Colorado, one of the first of its kind, and saw what transvestites actually looked like, he decided to isolate himself and then start killing people.
--The Systems Neatest Trick audio reading

However, the story is all bullshit, quoting Ted’s autobiography:

>...During the summer following my 4th year at Michigan... I had become thoroughly discouraged with mathematics. Music, reading, and other hedonistic pursuits bored me if indulged in to more than a limited extent. Thus, my life began to seem completely empty. I felt that I had nothing to look forward to or to live for ... ...the extreme low morale that I experienced in the latter part of the summer after my 4th year at Michigan led to the second of the 2 episodes in my life that I am really ashamed of. I got into a state where, for I guess about the last 2 or 3 weeks of the summer, I was more or less sexually excited nearly all the time, with fantasies of myself as a woman. It makes me squirm to think of it, but I actually decided to make an effort to have a sex-change operation. … When I got back to the U. of Michigan, I made an appointment to see one of their psychiatric counselors. ... However, as the time approached for the appointment, I felt a certain revulsion setting in. While I was sitting in the waiting room I turned completely against the idea of the operation. So when I went in to see the doctor, I just gave him a bullshit story about being depressed about the possibility of being drafted...
--Ted's 1979 Autobiography

Whatever the truth of Ted's internal world, the false rumors that Ted went far along the process towards getting sex reassignment surgery to live as a binary trans woman is a move many conservatives have made in an attempt to propagandize 'Ted the mad serial bomber as one of them transes, that all trans people are like him and as such shouldnt be placated with healthcare.'

There being this other explanation that some cis men experience autogynophelia, yet feel happier living as men pours cold water on conservatives desire to believe Ted for sure wanted to live as a trans woman. Along with it simply not being true that Ted talked to anyone about wanting sex reassignment surgery. Plus that he explicitly wrote in his journal the idea of surgery was just for sexual enjoyment and that he was planning to just fool the psychiatrist. So, not because he felt like a woman or enjoyed the prospect of getting to be seen out in the world as a woman.

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Finally, if you could magic a library or online archive into existence, where all the work of tracking down texts from various different libraries and hard-to-find corners of the internet was done for you, what would the collection look like? And what would it be called?

I've helped digitize a fair few texts that were hidden away in physical libraries, and turned a lot of badly photo scanned books into nice to read books with hyperlinked chapters and footnotes, etc.

I've also been trying to help find a web developer up for building some cool online archives and a classic forum board for people to talk about them. So, I know this is a long shot, but if you have those skills and would like to be involved let me know. The text linked below shows a bunch of already digitized texts that could be split off to start off some new archives:

• https://thelul.org/library/radical-texts-that-could-be-split-off-to-create-new-archives