Most AGPs wear diapers because they believe that they need to make up for the childhoods they believed the lost. They also love wearing cat ears (commonly seen in the anime they consume).
Well I'm trans myself and I see this weird infantile uwu stuff everywhere in the trans community. It makes me really uncomfortable. Its definitely not a Linehan myth.
You identify the distinction between those who are AGP and those of us who really are transsexual.
The trigger for me to write my book The War on Gender ~ Postmodernism and Trans Identity (available on Amazon) was reading 'anti-transphobia' websites where people went on about how they were 'quite happy' with their 'female penises' and how having reassignment surgeries weren't necessary to being transsexual, or now rather, transgender.
One of the main criticisms the likes of Helen Joyce make is that most trans 'women' haven't had surgery, but then says that is irrelevant. If so, why does she make this distinction? Surely those of us who have had reassignment and are happy to have done so are distinct from those who wish to keep their male morphology or who regret it.
My own physical dysphoria was there from my earliest memories and was absolutely unremitting. It's quite clear to me that the neurological studies by the likes of Professor VS Ramachandran (Neuropsychologist), Gooren and Zhou (Neuroanatomy) and Dr Milton Diamond (Reviews of organic evidence, separated twin studies etc) account for the kind of experience that those like me experienced.
The problem today is that there are no category distinctions made between AGP or HSTS and neurological conditions since the institution of the 'trans umbrella' where even wondering what it is like to be the opposite sex entitles you to claim you are 'trans'.
When people accuse me of being AGP and reject my evidence that I had my dysphoria from my earliest memories they are effectively making an unfalsifiable hypothetical assertion. They try to shoehorn all transsexuals into their AGP model without allowing any of us to explore or define our own identities or consider other explanations for how we feel. I spent most of my twenties trying to find a way out of my dysphoria but even a full therapy training qualification left me with nothing but the sense that this was an immovable hard wired thing that I had. Someone recently put it to me that 'what you resist, persists'. Well, I don't actually accept that, I think Jung meant something different from what this person is suggesting. I think she meant things that you resist looking at or coming to consciousness. If trying to find a way out of a difficult space automatically causes that difficulty to persist, then I should have just accepted my transsexual feelings in the first place.
What is clear to me is that the subject of neurology is almost entirely absent from the current debate.
I'm not sure why it wouldn't involve civil rights in cases when these people transition and start to live as women. Being seen as a woman may make them feel more sexually attractive, but if they are living as trans women — how are they much different from the trans population at large?
Most AGPs wear diapers because they believe that they need to make up for the childhoods they believed the lost. They also love wearing cat ears (commonly seen in the anime they consume).
and some are hiding something else while wearing those diapers...it's not that innocent.
Source: Graham Linehan's blog
Well I'm trans myself and I see this weird infantile uwu stuff everywhere in the trans community. It makes me really uncomfortable. Its definitely not a Linehan myth.
You identify the distinction between those who are AGP and those of us who really are transsexual.
The trigger for me to write my book The War on Gender ~ Postmodernism and Trans Identity (available on Amazon) was reading 'anti-transphobia' websites where people went on about how they were 'quite happy' with their 'female penises' and how having reassignment surgeries weren't necessary to being transsexual, or now rather, transgender.
One of the main criticisms the likes of Helen Joyce make is that most trans 'women' haven't had surgery, but then says that is irrelevant. If so, why does she make this distinction? Surely those of us who have had reassignment and are happy to have done so are distinct from those who wish to keep their male morphology or who regret it.
My own physical dysphoria was there from my earliest memories and was absolutely unremitting. It's quite clear to me that the neurological studies by the likes of Professor VS Ramachandran (Neuropsychologist), Gooren and Zhou (Neuroanatomy) and Dr Milton Diamond (Reviews of organic evidence, separated twin studies etc) account for the kind of experience that those like me experienced.
The problem today is that there are no category distinctions made between AGP or HSTS and neurological conditions since the institution of the 'trans umbrella' where even wondering what it is like to be the opposite sex entitles you to claim you are 'trans'.
When people accuse me of being AGP and reject my evidence that I had my dysphoria from my earliest memories they are effectively making an unfalsifiable hypothetical assertion. They try to shoehorn all transsexuals into their AGP model without allowing any of us to explore or define our own identities or consider other explanations for how we feel. I spent most of my twenties trying to find a way out of my dysphoria but even a full therapy training qualification left me with nothing but the sense that this was an immovable hard wired thing that I had. Someone recently put it to me that 'what you resist, persists'. Well, I don't actually accept that, I think Jung meant something different from what this person is suggesting. I think she meant things that you resist looking at or coming to consciousness. If trying to find a way out of a difficult space automatically causes that difficulty to persist, then I should have just accepted my transsexual feelings in the first place.
What is clear to me is that the subject of neurology is almost entirely absent from the current debate.
Thank you for writing about this
I'm not sure why it wouldn't involve civil rights in cases when these people transition and start to live as women. Being seen as a woman may make them feel more sexually attractive, but if they are living as trans women — how are they much different from the trans population at large?
"where others are socially or even legally pressured into participating (in a sexual paraphilia), coercion is of course the outcome."
It is a civil rights issue that others "are socially or even legally pressured into participating (in a sexual paraphilia)".
That is one huge difference.
Forget the gaslighting that AGP is about "gender identity" - it is about a sexual paraphilia.
Because it’s not a gender identity issue for them as it is for the rest of the trans community, it’s a sexual one