The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey

: 533 : 443 Freund stated that the sexual arousal in this latter type could be associated, not only with crossdressing, but also with other feminine-typical behaviors, such as applying make-up or shaving the legs. In 1982, Kurt Freund and colleagues argued there were two distinct types of trans women, each with distinct causes: one type associated with childhood femininity and androphilia (sexual attraction to men), and another associated with fetishism and gynephilia (sexual attraction to women). These labels carried a social stigma of mere sexual fetishism, and contradicted trans women's self-identification as 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual', respectively. Prior to Blanchard, these classifications generally divided transgender women into two groups: 'homosexual transsexuals' if sexually attracted to men and 'heterosexual fetishistic transvestites' if sexually attracted to women.

These were variously based on sexual orientation, age of onset, and fetishism. Supporters argue that the typology explains differences between the two groups in childhood gender nonconformity, sexual orientation, history of fetishism, and age of transition.īeginning in the 1950s, clinicians and researchers developed a variety of classifications of transsexualism. Supporters of the typology include sexologists Bailey, James Cantor, Anne Lawrence, and bioethicist Alice Dreger. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) objected to the inclusion of a mention of autogynephilia that was added to the DSM-5, calling it an unproven theory.

Critics of the typology include sexologists John Bancroft and Charles Allen Moser and biologist and activist Julia Serano. Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen, which presented the typology to a general audience. Blanchard categorized trans women into two groups: homosexual transsexuals who are attracted exclusively to men and are feminine in both behavior and appearance and autogynephilic transsexuals who experience sexual arousal at the idea of having a female body ( autogynephilia).īlanchard's work has attracted significant controversy, especially following the 2003 publication of J.

Blanchard's transsexualism typology is a proposed psychological typology of gender dysphoria, transsexualism, and fetishistic transvestism, created by sexologist Ray Blanchard through the 1980s and 1990s, building on the work of earlier researchers, including his colleague Kurt Freund.

The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey