I once spoke to a Latina feminist on the phenomenon of “gay trans men”. She disagreed it was a fetish, and told me the following: “There is no doubt that it’s an invasion of male homosexuality, but it has a different reason. Straight women that look for a sexual relationship… … model without humiliation or domination don’t have any other place to turn to other than the idealization of gay sexuality. It isn’t right, since gay sexuality is not a refuge for straight women. But it’s not a fetish, at least not how I interpret the definition of fetish…

Me encantan los anacronismos y los occidentalismos. La homosexualidad como la entendemos es un concepto muy moderno, la palabra en sí es de menos de 200 años de existencia, y es también un concepto muy occidental. Pero sigan confundiendo la gimnasia con la magnesia. La idea de derechos a relaciones sexuales adultas igualitarias entre personas del mismo sexo, para ambos sexos, ni existió en la antigua Grecia, ni existiría abiertamente en una sociedad donde se considera crimen a pena de muerte.

Important things to note about this “true transsexualism” narrative that many push:

1) There is this myth that autogynephilic men and autohomoerotic women who call themselves “lesbians” and “gay men” respectively were never “true trans”. This is false Male-to-female transsexuals who called themselves “lesbians” go as far back as the 1960s and 70s, it’s just that psychiatrists did not understand their driving force to transition, and they were able to fool their doctors out of a “transvestic fetish” diagnosis.

Versión en español sigue.

If you hear that Puerto Rico’s new proposed Civil Code is “anti-LGBT”, this isn’t true. The new Civil Code proposes two things: 1) that changes in gender markers in documents should be based on medical evaluation and sex should be kept as a category... ...for Demographic Registry and birth certificates, 2) that surrogacy in exchange for money should be illegal while maintaining the option of voluntary surrogacy available. These are compromise positions to maintain equilibrium between women’s rights and those of LGBT people.

These postcolonial types love to romanticize “third sex” categories in traditional colonized societies and deride European Christian colonizers for despising them. Also, transgenderism as defined by those like Leslie Feinberg is an umbrella movement that includes people in these categories as “transgender”, though the term is a Western American creation.

Autogynephilic forced feminization is so insulting to me as a gay man. Gay men don’t call each other “faggots” or “sissies” when we have sex with each other. That is abusive and insulting. No gay man wants to play a caricature of a woman during sex. No gay man wants to dress up in “women’s clothing” and be humiliated by another man. We try our utmost to un-feminize the passive role during sex. It has been a horrible stereotype imposed on us by straight men for ages that gay men are “feminine” during sex.

What Nightmares May Come - A Thread

This is the paragraph section that Chase Strangio was sharing in their “strange” (pun intended) tweet a while ago. I’ve highlighted the pertinent sentences in yellow and green. It’s from the current case being brought to the Supreme Court regarding the “trans woman” who was fired from the funeral home because of work attire:

Nope, it was autogynephilic men who paved the way for transgenderism, as far back as the 1970s. Heterosexual transvestites like Virginia Prince and Ari Kane, “male lesbians” like Angela Douglas and Sandy Stone.
quillette.com/2019/08/01/how… They were at the periphery of Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism and took their cues from those movements for their own activism. Some of them even infiltrated through homosexual transvestite groups (Bunny Eisenhower) and lesbian feminist groups (Sandy Stone).

The History Behind that 1975 Statement or the real history immediately after Stonewall that the Transgender movement won’t talk about. - A Thread. Lee Greer Brewster (1943-2000) was a gay man from Virginia who in the 1960s was fired from the FBI for being gay. He later moved to New York and became a full-time drag queen. There he opened up a “transvestite” shop called Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique.

Our Foremothers and Forefathers Knew What Was Up - A Thread.

Statement against Transvestism

from Drag Magazine, “A Magazine about the Transvestite” or “The International Transvestite Quarterly”, vol. 5, no. 18, pp. 36, 37, 39, 42 & 47.

1975 We support the rights of all individuals as long as the individual rights do not harm others. However, we do strongly protest the inclusion of transvestite spokespeople and entertainers at gay rallies and demonstrations for the following reasons:

I’ve been seeing some gay men on here defend “sexual liberation” politics and be pro-fetish because supposedly it’s been that way since gay liberation days. Well I’m here to tell you that type of politics hasn’t actually ever helped homos in general and gay men specifically. I don’t care how many orgasms you’ve had because of it. I really don’t care, cause here are some of the reasons why “sexual liberation” hasn’t helped homosexuals, male or female:

You know when I found out about “trans lesbians” and “gay trans men”, I immediately came to the conclusion that straight people were appropriating our identities, history and struggles. When I heard the “sex is a spectrum/social construct” crowd I understood immediately that... ...my homosexuality was being erased. That is why, for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why so many gay men are onboard with trans ideology without question. I mean if you just put two and two together one would think gay men have at least something to lose from all of this.

Autogynephilia Resources - A Thread

I strongly agree with this tweet, because I had to read a lot on autogynephilia to understand what the hell is going. So here is a thread with resources (articles and books) on the subject for people to access. Please RT. First is Dr. J. Michael Bailey’s work. Although he is not the inventor of the term, his work is a good introduction on the subject. He co-wrote this article: “What Many Transgender Activists Don’t Want You to Know”, a good introductory article: app.box.com/s/a4ebjqsc8qjx…

Is There a Gay Male “Cotton Ceiling”? A Thread:

Yesterday I came across this tweet asking if gay men get the same accusations of bigotry from online articles for not embracing dating “trans men”. Here is a thread about that issue based on articles that I found online. First... Is there a Cotton Ceiling for gay men? Well technically no, because this concept was created by straight men who claim to be women targeting lesbians specifically. Also, these men are persistent & entitled because they were socialized to be so, less so for women seeking gay men.