>>6479I'm not opposed to Discord in this instance for security/privacy reasons and do have aan account. I just find Discord to be a viscerally disgusting experience to use with how obnoxious and noisy the UI has become over the past few years and try to avoid using it too much.
anyway, aside from everything I said above about how the entire AGP/HSTS thing is pseudoscience that was made up by chaser doctors who mostly just wanted to rape trans women and be able to cope about how the ones that they raped are actually the real valid women, another anon posted something in another thread recently about how "AGP" is a thing that is only applied to trans women to make us feel ashamed for having any degree of positivity about our own appearances and bodies even though there is nothing qualitatively different about trans women feeling good about their appearances as there is in cis people feeling hot. it works into the broader tendency to strip us of as much autonomy and agency as possible where we aren't even allowed to
feel good about ourselves without it being made into a pathological thing to gatekeep HRT from us, but this is a double-standard that isn't applied to like literally any other category. certainly not cis people, not even other trans people; it's something that is uniquely weaponized against transfems.
I also think there's some degree of obfuscation that has happened over time because as I said in the 90s the category of "transgender" was created to encompass both transsexuals and transvestites, and then later on in the 2010s things got even more muddled with everyone just being "queer", and once again it's only transfems who have to deal with all the contradictions of these arbitrary categories that were made up by cis people for completely cynical transmisogynistic reasons. you can make the argument that there is something that exists in the world that gets erroneously diagnosed as "autogynephilia" and that the conflation of this with Blanchardian pseudoscience is the result of how discourses around trans people have evolved over time. really, what this more accurately describes is crossdressers and transvestites, men who self-identify as men and that we now recognize as not being transfem because
they have no desire to live as women or identify with women as a class of people (speaking of which I highly recommend reading
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