Autogynephilia, Rod Fleming's World

18/06/2026

Autogynephilia: a compulsive disorder

Originally posted 2021-02-24 18:32:38.

Autogynephilia shares characteristics with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and in particular, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD. This latter is often made fun of but in severe cases, OCD can be debilitating. One characteristic of it is that the subject knows that whatever he is doing is not rational, but is unable to stop. This is typical of Autogynephilia, although as the condition progresses, the attachment to reality may fail altogether.

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Since gender is how we advertise our sexuality to others, sex, sexuality and gender are normally linked. If the sex/sexuality link is broken, gender will follow the sexuality, not the sex. This is a condition known as Sexual Inversion or transgender homosexuality. In more complete cases this will result in the individual desiring to live in accordance with his or her sexuality and required gender, rather than social norms for sex.

Candy from Pattaya: a gorgeous Homosexual Transsexual

As far as we know, Sexual Inversion is innate. It appears early in childhood, sometimes as early as three. It is just a part of natural variation. Commonly, those who elect to live in accordance with such inverted sexuality are known as HomoSexual Transsexuals or HSTS.

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18/06/2026

Autogynephilic and HomoSexual MtF in Asia

Originally posted 2017-10-16 15:39:20.

Most male-to-feminine (MtF) transitioners are EITHER homosexual (exclusively attracted to men from childhood) or non-homosexual (not exclusively attracted to men from childhood.) The latter are commonly known as Autogynephilic. This distinction is obvious and has been observed since the 19th century. It is recognised as fundamental by all serious scientists working in the field.

Transsexual Homosexuals (formerly HSTS) exhibit a cluster of trait characteristics in addition to their sexual desire for men. They tend to be small, delicately built, light for their height, naturally feminine and neotenous. They have intense difficulty learning to be masculine, if they ever do and will naturally perform femininity. All transsexuals, everywhere in the world, conform to this model; they are remarkably homogeneous.

Non-homosexuals exhibit no such clustering; in fact they conform to the averages for men of their ethnicity and are attracted to women. Essentially they are transvestites but their condition, Autogynephilia, is complex, with five recognised forms and three Sexualities; they are remarkably disparate.

The explanation for Transsexuals is easy and has never been disputed: they desire men and are naturally feminine, so to attract men, whom they know to be attracted to femininity, they make themselves more feminine. They find pleasure in anal stimulation from a young age, often long before puberty. If non-homosexuals do learn to enjoy anal stimulation, it is invariably later and many never do. Many remain gynephilic, that is, attracted to femininity. So why on earth might it be that a man, who is not attracted to or seeking to attract men, would want to appear to be feminine?

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18/06/202614/08/2026

Gender Identity does not exist: Explaining Transgender 3

Originally posted 2017-08-05 13:45:43.

There has been been a movement to separate so-called homosexual transsexuals from non-homosexual transsexuals. This was described by Dr Ray Blanchard in the 1980a and 90s.¹ According to Blanchard, homosexual transsexuals or HSTS were motivated towards feminine appearance by a desire to attract men while non-homosexuals were motivated by Autogynephilia, (AGP) which was ‘a man’s arousal at the thought or image of himself as a woman.’ These two conditions, he said, were quite separate. He even asserted that females could not be autogynephilic, saying that ‘you have to be gynephilic (attracted to femininity) to be autogynephilic’. This implied that females could not be attracted to other females, which I think lesbians might disagree with. He produced statistical data which he claimed proved his point I would disagree.

Blanchard was wrong and mea culpa, in accepting his conclusions, so was I. After years of research and hundreds of interviews I can say that all male desire to appear to be female or at least feminine is provoked by autogynephilia. Every case. Blanchard had described four forms this could take, being transvestic, anatomical, behavioural and physiological, with the first most prevalent. Later, Bailey and Lawrence added another, interpersonal. All agreed that these could be present in combination. Now these were all proposed to be variations of autogynephilia, but if all of them are valid, and perhaps they might be, why is homosexuality not included? How is an androphilic male who presents as a girl any different from a gynephilic male who does the same? This sound like special pleading. Indeed what if homosexuality were the driving force behind all forms of male transsexualism? Let me explain.

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18/06/2026

Transsexuals and transvestic Autogynephiles: How to Spot Them.

Originally posted 2017-01-25 06:38:55.

There are two distinct types of ‘transwoman’ — Transsexuals and transvestic Autogynephiles. These are people born male who present as women. Other than that, the two types have no similarity to each other. However, this has been deliberately confused by individuals in one of these types, to advantage themselves at the expense of the other, and also to harm women. This has caused widespread misunderstanding. We need a field guide. Read on!

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18/06/2026

Theryn Meyer & Rachel Levine: AGP extremes

Originally posted 2021-01-25 16:40:15.

One of the most remarkable things about Autogynephilia is its extreme range. Theryn Meyer and Rachel Levine seem very different, but they are not. However, once the condition is understood, one reason for this becomes clear.

Prior to 1980, the concept of the Sexual Invert, the petite, highly feminine male who was exclusively attracted to men and wished to play the recipient role in sex, was well documented. They were never interested in members of the same sex and identified strongly with feminine models, often presenting as girls or at least, in as unmasculine a manner as they could get away with. This last type, in adulthood, was called ‘homosexual transsexual’ or HSTS, by Kurt Freund in 1973.

Freund did not himself originate the concept behind the term, since it was discussed in detail by Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis and Harry Benjamin, amongst many others. So this is a well-documented phenomenon that has been thoroughly studied for over a hundred years.

The problem was that this concept, of innate Sexual Inversion leading to transition desire and homosexual transsexualism, did not cover every person coming forward to seek assistance in appearing to be a woman. There were also men, often middle aged, who were usually married and had children and most interestingly were not attracted to men, but to women. They were non-homosexual. How could these be explained?

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18/06/202617/08/2026

What is Autogynephilia and what causes it?

Originally posted 2021-01-07 14:43:41.

Autogynephilia (AGP) was defined by Dr Ray Blanchard as ‘A man’s propensity to be aroused at the thought or image of himself as a woman’. This has been held up as one of two causes of male transsexualism, the other being homosexuality. But what is it and what actually causes it? Is it actually different from homosexuality?

The key to this lies in first understanding that autogynephilia is just an expression of gynephilia, attraction to femininity. Secondly, all forms of male transition desire are caused by it. The complication arises in that this attraction is reflexive; it is auto-erotic. I’ll explain this.

Further, so-called ‘Gender Dysphoria’ insofar as it represents a more or less debilitating desire to perform feminine gender by a male, is also just autogynephilia. In brief, all forms of male transition desire are expressions of autogynephilia. Therefore, to find a cause for male transition desire, we must find the cause of gynephilia.

This appears to have been glossed over by Blanchard who was after all both a psychologist and a psychometrist. He doesn’t seem to have considered a physiological cause. Nevertheless, an underlying cause must be found, in order to understand this phenomenon. So what is that cause?

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18/06/2026

Social Autogynephilia and Schadenfreude.

Originally posted 2017-10-24 21:35:44.

Autogynephilia is ‘a man’s propensity to be sexually aroused at the thought or image of himself as a woman’. For many practical purposes we might restate that as ‘a man’s overwhelming desire to be a woman’, to ‘become that which he loves’ and so on. It is a man’s deeply-felt identification with the object of his desire. So what might social autogynephilia be?

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18/06/2026

Elephant in the Room (and Crocodiles)

Originally posted 2013-09-30 15:05:59.

They’re the elephant in the room, where relations between ladyboys and men are concerned.

Elephant, you say? Well, almost without exception, the assertion is made that the men who like ladyboys are straight. Yet when you talk to ladyboys in private, a very different picture appears. Half at least of men who seek out ladyboys, far from being straight or anything close, are closet Autogynephiles (AGP) (and homophobic to boot). They’re not homosexuals, but they are definitely not ‘straight’ either.

This is borne out by research done at Northwestern University by Ken Hsu et alia.

We would not expect honesty from these men about this; after all, look at the lengths they go just to deny their own sexuality and maintain a false façade of hetero-normativity. The elephant must be hidden. Their words may be taken with a moderately-sized bucket of salt. But what about the girls? Why do ladypoys ever lend credibility to this falsehood? Why don’t they just call out these guys as closet queens from the get-go?

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18/06/202619/06/2026

Fetishistic transvestites and classic transsexuals

Originally posted 2017-06-19 14:40:01.

The appearance of a Fetishistic Transvestite in the household has massively disrupting consequences for the whole family. On the other hand, classic transsexuals rarely provoke such issues, though they may experience rejection.

Before going further, let’s quickly recap. Fetishistic transvestites are the most common female impersonators in the West. They are quite distinct from the classic transsexuals, called in Asia ladyboys, in Latin America travestis or in Blanchard theory homosexual transsexuals or HSTS.¹ These represent a completed form of feminine homosexuality, but do not generally consider themselves to be ‘real women’. Rather they are feminine, androphilic males. They are more likely to identify as ‘gays’ and are always aware that they are male . They are characterised by a powerful attraction to men, associated with strong cross-gender identification and behaviours, and a history of sex-atypicality beginning either in childhood or in adolescence. They are genuine Sexual Inverts and are almost exclusively androphilic.

Fetishistic transvestites, on the other hand, are men with a mental disorder. They appear much later in life, usually over the age of forty and almost always remain gynephilic. Indeed, they are often strongly androphobic. However, they are related to classic transsexuals in some ways.

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Blanchard’s definition is problematic, because it suggests that homosexuals are a subset of transsexuals while the opposite is true. [↩]

16/07/2025

Transgender, Autogynephilia and Narcissistic Rage

Originally posted 2017-06-11 16:44:21.

Transgender, Autogynephilia and Narcissistic Rage

Autogynephilia, defined as ‘a man’s propensity to become sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman’ is the primary cause of male to feminine transgender expressions. It occurs all over the world but takes different forms depending on the local cultures. Continue reading “Transgender, Autogynephilia and Narcissistic Rage”