>what would be the next step to break this cycle?the first step is to realize that a lot of these "brainworms" are ultimately just nothingburgers. why should i care if i am agp and doing it just for a "fetish"? you see many people use "agp" in pejorative fashion, but blanchard was never against agps transitioning. the way our community treats blanchard's typology is rather haphazard and unsystematic. for instance, this abstract "agp" is demonized, meanwhile it is often tacitly supposed that actually wanting srs makes you somehow valid, despite the fact that it is actually nonhomosexual transsexuals that would seem to be more likely to actually pursue srs from the perspective of intrinsic motivation. when you really dig down to it, the idea that "hsts" are the valid ones makes very little sense. they are just transitioning to sleep with men and this makes them more valid somehow?
really, there is something deeper which is at the root of such brainworms, along with other concerns such as "transmedicalism" and that is substance metaphysics. agp or not, having gender dysphoria are somehow "invalidating" and make you less of "true trans". but what the hell is true trans exactly? notice how everyone is talking about this as though there is some sort of trans substance floating about which enters into some people while does not enter others, which is somehow unable to pass into the "agps" but is perfectly able to pass into the straight transexuals? furthermore, why exactly should i care? let us say i am agp. ok, but does this detract from the real emotional and physical pain that i and other alleged agps feel about their bodies? even if the diagnosis is correct, all it does is outline the libidinal dynamics underlying the desire. it hardly gives a determinate direction with respect to where to go from there
of course, there are underlying political implications underlying why such issues have taken root. the first is the optics game. people latch unto blanchard's typology, despite blanchard's personal support for cross-typological transition, because "autogynephilia"
sounds bad. it coheres with all sorts of suspicions and paranoid cathexes which have constructed an archetype of modern transsexual that is somehow predatory or dangerous. besides this, there is the power-knowledge of the medical industries surrounding transitioning which have taken it upon themselves to define a particular subjectivity (t
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