Honestly I made that comment above not really expecting anyone to take me seriously. And I hate how I’m made to feel like they are in the right I’ve stopped expecting basic human decency from other people after being hurt so many times. I have to try to change her mind away from being a terf or I’ll be forced to live alone. Hell right now I’m in the middle of writing a message to a friend and trying to explain to her why what she said to me hurt. Because if it’s a fetish, that must mean they are a bad person who’s bothering everyone with their presence for nothing.
It’s no surprise that I keep on seeing trans women fear that it’s nothing more then one big fetish that they are throwing their lives away for. Society treats us like disgusting perverts who are intruding on others all the time. They all weaponize the shame and self hatred that they know we have wnd make us into the ones doing the harm.
Telling them they are crazy wnd hurting real transgender people by pretending they are actually like them. Telling them they don’t really have Dysphoria. And the ones that don’t really shame the ones that might struggle. Not all transgender people have this same “expirence” with feeling “authogynaphelia”. And it’s also terrible with other transgender people. They know that we are afraid of feeling like a monster that doesn’t belong. Tell us why we are feeling the way we are feeling and why we are hurting cis womanhood and why we are bad people and Copt feminism and their own oppression to do it. Terfs know that they have the power here, and they know what to say to make us hate ourselves and want to give up.
The worst part is that it’s not the conservatives who weaponize autogynephilia but mostly other lefties. We are the ones who have to ask for acceptance, and not the other way around, so we are the ones that always have to justify ourselves Yeah… unfortunately that’s just not how it works tbh You can now Go talk to your friends about euphoria boners You’re now substantially more educated on this then your average cis person There’s way too much information that you’ll never need or ever even wanted to know I personally have expirence this but it went far down the moment I was socially accepted and was more comfortable with myself which is the case for a lot of trans woman who also dealt with it. Causing many trans woman to repress believing that their gender is nothing more then a fetishish. Very very shamefully( This is again, only just a portion of trans women) As such this has been used aggressively by terfs and stuff to gaslight transwomen to a very scary degree of success. And it’s also not uncommon for transfemmes to shamefully want to continue the good feelings of euphoria artificially as the Dysphoria of the boner makes the euphoria start to fade. Not all trans woman, but certainly a lot. And the idea has gained an immense amount of traction considering how many early trans woman do get aroused at the sight of themselves in a dress due to their own inhability to fully process the sudden euphoria. It was used inorder to discredit transwomen as nothing more than a fetish. Autogynophelia was a term coined by Richard Blanchard to describe the act having sexual arosal at and or masterbaiting to you being in woman’s clothes or being a women physically