Originally posted 2022-02-20 18:55:58.
You know, if you really want to ruin your Saturday night, go hang around a fetishistic transvestite message forum.
A fetishistic transvestite is a non-homosexual male is besotted by himself — as a woman. This condition is powered by autogynephilia, which is a form of autoeroticism. Dr Ray Blanchard’s coined the term the 1980s at the Clarke Institute in Toronto. It is safe to say that neither this institution nor Dr Blanchard have found favour with many a fetishistic transvestite.
Blanchard was trying to put some statistical flesh on his ‘two types’ theory of transition desire. In fact, the idea that there were two types of male who might want to appear to be female, or at least feminine, had been known for many years, since the time of Magnus Hirschfeld. One type was easy to understand, the other so complex that some researchers thought there was a multiplicity.
Homosexual or androphilic transsexuals
Let’s start by defining what fetishistic transvestites are not. They are not androphilic, that is, attracted to men or more precisely, masculinity. Therefore they are not homosexual. Ray Blanchard realised that just as one type, the completed Sexual Invert, which he described as homosexual transsexual, has a sexual stimulus for her desire to live as a member of the opposite sex, so did the other. Both desires are male, driven by testosterone, and both display autogynephilia, which we define as erotic arousal at the performance of femininity. In fact, what has been called ‘gender dysphoria’ is just autogynephilia, which can cause distress if denied. Autogynephilia appears to be powered by testosterone.
Important differences.
Broadly, male transitioners can be categorised into three types: transsexuals, sometimes called homosexual transsexuals (a tautology) or HSTS. These are innate Sexual Inverts, are androphilic and sexually submissive, and begin to show sex-atypicality in childhood, although they are not sexualised until puberty. (However, precocious puberty is a marked trait in this type.) Once they do hit puberty they will almost invariably begin anal play, using fingers, toys or household objects. At the same time they are likely to begin experimenting with sexual contact with boys; in the beginning this might be restricted to fellatio but at some point, penetration is inevitable. After that they are likely to pursue it assiduously. The variable which determines whether they transition or not is their autogynephilia; where it is strong enough to counter social intolerance, they will do so, otherwise they will conceal it and pretend to be men, more or less (usually less) successfully. This type is the classic transsexual, petite, pretty and highly feminine.
The second type is not natively homosexual; they are unremarkable children, often somewhat withdrawn and perhaps bookish, although they might put extra effort into performing masculinity. While transsexuals almost invariably prefer feminine toys and clothes from a young age, this group is less focussed. When puberty hits — and this type is not as precocious as transsexuals — their autogynephilia asserts itself. At first they might conceal this, playing with dildos and other toys in private. Unlike transsexuals, they seem less keen to share this with others and tend to be secretive, until either the psychological pressure of their autogynephilia becomes irresistible or some other event triggers them. This could be finding some female underwear and trying it on, masturbation in front of a mirror or, and this is common, being penetrated by a man or older boy. If they can experience anal penetration as pleasure, they will not desist.
This type will likely, if possible, desire to dress and live as a girl. This is affirmative in the first place, but it is also a sexual reward. Many may wear women’s underwear under boy clothes, for example, but as soon as they can , they will immerse themselves in femininity. If they are able — or allowed — to do this, they’ll probably be happy. This type will usually become androphilic, initially out of their performance of femininity but later because they genuinely like both the sex with men (although a small number may remain active in this) and the ability to perform femininity in public.
This is a very disparate category. Blanchard called these ‘pseudo-bisexuals’ but that seems hard to support, when discussing someone who only has relations with men and lives full-time as a girl. However, to distinguish them from the transsexual type, we might call them androphilic transvestites. They typically appear soon after puberty, in the 15-23 age range,
Fetishistic transvestite
Unfortunately, another variant exists, one which is actually better-known. This is the gynephilic or fetishistic transvestite. It is possible that this form sets on at puberty but is suppressed for potentially decades. Since suppression does not work, these individuals, who typically appear over the age of 35 and many much older than that, can become frustrated. Unlike the androphilic transvestites, they are fully masculinised by that time and have little hope of ‘passing’. Those who appear over the age of 50, a significant subset, are particularly likely to have mental health issues. They are often married with children and inflict horrific mental damage on their families, by suddenly appearing as pseudo-women.
The final category to consider is that of females. Yes, they do have testosterone, about 20% of male levels, but this varies with their cycles. So it is indeed the case that females are aroused by the performance of femininity; Blanchard was dead wrong by denying that. In some females, autogynephilia can be very high but these tend to have correspondingly high testosterone. If these are gynephilic they are a specific type of lesbian, but unlike the classic butch lesbian, who performs masculinity, they are hyper-feminine.
Self-awareness
Since, correctly, transsexuals understand their gender to be derived from their sexuality, they see themselves as girls. These women had been born as boys but were strongly attracted to men as sexual partners: so they had to be girls. This is because sexuality always follows the rule : opposites attract. Typically they had identified as girls and had displayed strong and consistent cross-gender behaviour since they were small children, perhaps being noted as early as thirty months. These and a raft of other similarities made it both easy to identify the individuals and to describe the group: they were small, light, light for height, tended to have female-typical digit ratios, had naturally feminine voices, had ‘girly’ interests, were facially neotenous, absolutely adored men, especially dominant, older alpha male figures and almost always had a craving for anal sex.
This does not mean that Blanchard — or any of the others who had used the term — thought that these transsexuals were necessarily raving sex addicts, any more than girls of similar age are. It was just that the stimulus for their desire to appear to be women came from their sexuality, which was inverted (since they were male, such that they desired to play the female role in sex and sought partners who could satisfy that.)
In other words, they wanted big hairy masculine men and did what every other normal girl does to attract such specimens, that is, make themselves as glamorous as they can. These girls are homosexual with regard to birth sex: they are males who want to be nailed to the bed by men. Heterosexual masculine men, that is, never ‘gay’ men.
It’s worth noting here that this type, the androphilic transsexual, is always beautiful. There would be absolutely no point in her completing herself and living as a woman if she had to be a plain one. She’s in competition with women and she takes every advantage, fair or foul, that she can. Looks and charisma are weapons in her arsenal and please don’t be fooled: in any environment where there is an elevated number of such transsexuals, the ambient femininity is overpowering.
Autogynephilia is a sexuality
Autogynephilia should be seen as a distinct sexuality, like androphilia, attraction to masculinity and desiring to be submissive in sex, and gynephilia, attraction to femininity and desiring to be dominant. While these are the most common types, there are others, of which autogynephilia is perhaps the most important. Like androphilia and gynephilia, it can affect both males and females.
Autogynephilia is often conflated with ‘gender dysphoria’, a bogus diagnosis from the 1970s. Gender dysphoria is just the pressure to perform femininity experienced by all homosexuals, transsexuals, transvestites and women.
Blanchard said that autogynephilia was caused by an Erotic Target Location Error. Where other people — including homosexual transsexuals — would focus their sexual desire on a subject outside themselves, that is, another human being, autogynephiles focus on themselves in the role of another person, usually a woman but sometimes a transsexual. This was the more common category that Blanchard dealt with. However, his logic bears no scrutiny, once we accept that the important factor is the sexual reward individuals get from performing femininity. It is that performance that counts. Clearly, for some, especially fetishists who have no natural femininity, this is a major challenge and they do have to invent another persona for themselves; but naturally feminine, androphilic transsexuals and transvestites, not to mention women, have no need to do that; they are literally just playing themselves.
For fetishistic (gynephilic) transvestites, however, things are not so easy. Although some do become so delusional that self-awareness disappears, most always retain an awareness that they are not actually female. They may elect to have surgery to create an ersatz pseudo-vagina, but most who do so will never use it. They may say it causes pain or discomfort to do so but the real reason is that they remain androphobic and cannot stand to submit sexually to a man;Â so they predate on women (and often transsexuals), going as far as to harangue them if they refuse their advances. This leads to the typical, delusional Western form that has become so well known.
Partially formed transsexuals
Unfortunately, the term ‘homosexual transsexual’ implies, at least to some, that these are men, which they are not. However, to the best of my knowledge, none of them have an issue with it being said that they are attracted to men.
As Dr Cantor has put it, homosexual males, of which he is one, are ‘partially formed transsexuals. This is true throughout the world: in Brazil, for example, there is a saying that ‘Behind every travesti there is a viado’, which means ‘Behind every transsexual is a gay-boy’. In the Philippines, transitioning into a girl is seen as the natural progression for a ‘gay’ boy. So on this, Blanchard’s thinking is supported by evidence which comes, crucially, from other cultures.
I think a large number of homosexuals are persuaded to role-play ‘gay men’ when in fact they are actually girls, either by peer pressure or simply by being denied access to transition until they are too old to pass convincingly, a rank injustice which some groups in the West seem hell-bent on maintaining. Let us be clear: there is no such thing as a ‘gay man’, because to be a man one must be both male and masculine, and homosexuals are not masculine; lying face down munching pillows while some massive hairy beast rogers your arse is not masculine, boys.
Three types?
In fact, the traditional model provides three basic forms of sexual identity: The first is Men, that is masculine males who are sexually active and pursue feminine targets; they are simple enough. Then there are Not-men’, that is, everyone else. But this is more complicated, because in a traditional model a woman is a mother. The Western concept of ‘transwoman’, with or without a space, is meaningless in this scheme. But what about the parthenos, the virgin girls who are not yet mothers? They are clearly not men, but they are not women either, since they have not yet created a new life. Crucially here, this group, made up of individuals who are not men but are not women either, also contains homosexuals and transsexuals. There are many names for them, which equate to the Greek parthenos, but in the absence of intelligent conventions like the old ‘Mrs’ and ‘Miss’ divide, we shall simply call them girls — not men but not women either. By this logic, a homosexual cannot be a man, because not masculine and cannot be a woman, because incapable of conception; but such a person can be a girl, especially if his performance of femininity is good. In Asia, although other terms are often used, this identity is actually applied everywhere. For example in Luzon in the Philippines, a gay is a bakla, but this term is also applied to an unmarried female! In the case of homosexuals this status is permanent; they cannot be men and never move on to being women, but remain always in an intermediary state, girls.
Transcending sex: the basis of transsexualism
Blanchard’s ‘homosexual transsexual’ has transcended her birth sex and so is transsexual. This type, however, is a minority of candidates for Genital Reconstruction Surgery both in the West and elsewhere. Reliable estimates are hard to find, but in Thailand only 7% of transitioned kathoeys (ladyboys) have this . In other cultures, the balance may be different.
Typically, transsexuals and transvestite males will dress in women’s clothes and masturbate, especially if they have bee unable to land a man to do the honours. It does appear that regular anal stimulation is important to them.. This may not be the only way they seek sexual relief, but it is consistently a factor.
How does this happen?
During puberty, boys may start masturbating to imagined girls or to pornography. This happens at Tanner Stage 4, otherwise known as the spermarch, and it occurs between twelve and fifteen years of age, on average. Generally, either an idealised girl will feature in erotic fantasy, or porn will be used. This is an erotic target outside the self, so it is correctly located.
At the same point some males begin to masturbate to the mental image of themselves as girls. Most boys of that age are not masculine; as Dr JM Bailey has suggested, they are sufficiently unmasculine to become sexual targets for men, and this happens all over the world, whether Westerners approve or not. However, this also means that they are sufficiently feminine to be sexually exciting to themselves. Mirror-play in particular may become a regular part of their sexual experience, as might group masturbation sessions with other boys. Both transsexuals (who generally appear at an early age) and transvestites (who appear in adolescence) do this.
It takes little imagination to picture a situation wherein a group of boys are masturbating with each other and one or more ‘becomes a girl’ in order to strengthen the experience visually. Perhaps he might put on some of a sister’s underwear or even just move in a way he thinks feminine. But the thrill might not remain visual; in many cases, boys will masturbate each other; one step up would be fellatio and in the end, anal penetration. And there we have created a new identity, a gay. This is the nexus between transsexuals (who are natively androphilic or Sexually Inverted) and transvestites, (who are not, but become androphilic as a result of repeated sexual reward and affirmation). This is where they come together, in the insertion of penis into either mouth (itself and erogenous zone) or anus.
The transvestite, through this, acquires gynephilia, with himself as the model. He might well retain an attraction to femininity, gynephilia, which is probably why Blanchard classed these as ‘pseudo-bisexual’. However, many will fully reject their androphilia and replace it with intense gynephilia.
The gynephilic transvestite cannot do any of this, because he succumbed to autogynephilia too late, at an age when his androphobia, which is usually well established by age 25, had become cemented in. One said to me ‘Allowing a man to penetrate me would be the most affirming thing I could do, but I couldn’t. I just couldn’t.’ Others have said that they did it once but never again. The reason for this is androphobia, which is what makes men warriors. Androphobic men — which is most of them — cannot stand physical contact with other men and an unexpected contact might lead to a violent response.
Feminine gender is specifically designed to attract men, so transsexuals and androphilic transvestites crave male attention. But the performance of femininity by a gynephilic transvestite is a problem simply because it does attract men. Since they are conventionally androphobic males, their own performance of femininity leads them into situations wherein men approach them; typically these will be rebuffed but each such contact causes massive cognitive dissonance, because the subject’s autogynephilia is attracting men, when his male sexuality wants women. This is why such males are often borderline insane.