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Jan 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I’m going to stop tweeting about “reasonable compromise” after this thread, because it’s been unproductive. Here are my final thoughts, which pertain to adults only. 1/5
Compromise for women: I think that male-to-female (MTF) trans should be allowed in women’s rest rooms after vaginoplasty. 2/5
Compromise for trans: There is no basic need (comparable to urination) to swim in a public pool or exercise in a public gymnasium, and MTF trans should stay out of women’s locker rooms and showers, even if they’ve undergone vaginoplasty. 3/5
Compromise for trans: MTF trans should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports, no matter what their surgical or hormonal status. Participating in competitive sports is not a basic human right, and it’s not the only way to get exercise. 4/5
Compromise for women: MTF trans should be allowed to change the sex designation on documents such as drivers’ licenses. 5/5

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Sep 9, 2023
Here are the publisher’s open-access, read-only links to each chapter of Anne A. Lawrence’s magisterial work, Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism. The links are given in the next three tweets.
Men Trapped, Chaps 1-4.
1. Men Trapped in Men's Bodies:

2. Theory and case histories:

3. Narratives by Autogynephilic Transsexuals:

4. Confronting Autogynephilia:
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Men Trapped, Chaps 5-8.
5. Developmental Histories:

6. Manifestations of Autogynephilia:

7. Autogynephilia and Heterosexuality:

8. Sex with Men:
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Oct 3, 2020
<< Difference Between Old-Time (≈1970–1990) And Contemporary Transsexualism Specialists >>

1 of 4: Old-time clinicians did not adopt patients’ perceptions and viewpoints *as their own*.
2 of 4: Old-time clinicians understood that patients had some incommunicable sensation of “truly” belonging to the opposite sex, and they judged that certain severe, intractable cases would be happier approximating the appearance and social role of the opposite sex.
3 of 4: They did not, however, believe that patients actually *were* the opposite sex in their Platonic essence or in some other regard.
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Jul 28, 2020
The reason I emphasize postoperative transsexuals’ access to washrooms is because the ability to void outside of private homes is important for participation in normal life, including work. 1/5
Gender-critical folk who do not want male-to-female transsexuals using women’s washrooms could simply argue that the necessity of urinating or defecating while in public is transsexuals’ problem, not women’s problem, and that it is up to transsexuals to cope as best they can. 2/5
That viewpoint, however, is out of tune with modern sensibilities, which prohibit any expression of “That’s your problem, not mine” toward any minority group, even when such a stance might reasonably be justified. 3/5
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Jul 23, 2020
This is a thread about the recent study by Jabbour et al., Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men. PNAS, pnas.org/content/early/….
Phallometric testing was invented as a penile lie detector, and it is still used for the clinical diagnosis of pedophilia in sexual offenders against children, especially when diagnosis from the patient’s history alone is uncertain. ImageImage
Many people, including many gay men, have asserted that self-described bisexual men are attempting to deceive themselves or to deceive others. Throughout much of the 20th century, many experienced and sophisticated clinical experts also believed this.
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Nov 19, 2019
Here is my contribution to Autogynephilia Awareness Day. Shortly after I began assessing and researching men with paraphilias and gender identity disorders, I realized that empathy was not going to take me very far.
Either one feels sexual excitement at the thought of putting on women’s underwear, or touching a young child’s genitals, or showing one’s penis in public to strangers, or being bound and gagged - or one does not.
Empathy will not help you experience the same feelings. One comes to understand paraphilias and gender identity disorders the same way one comes to understand mathematics or history or geology - by studying and thinking.
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Sep 30, 2019
Something I read recently on Twitter prompted me to write this thread. It concerns the days when gender identity clinics were generally associated with university hospitals (roughly, 1970’s and 80’s), and when these clinics operated on the “gatekeeper” model. 1/7
One sometimes hears or reads transsexuals brag that they “told the clinicians what they wanted to hear” and so manipulated clinical staff into writing prescriptions for sex hormones or letters of approval for sex reassignment surgery. 2/7
In fact, clinical authorities had been writing since 1972 (at the latest) that some adult gender patients were “unreliable historians,” who retrospectively distorted their childhood histories to give the onset of their gender dysphoria an earlier date. 3/7
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