Can someone explain this to me? I honest to god don't understand what's the contradiction here...
Also if it's too touchy, tell me and I'll delete.
Here's the original tweet.
Blanchard is a psychologist who did some writing on trans people in the 70's.
Gonna spoiler this since some people find it offensive, please keep in mind I do not endorse this
He grouped trans women into two categories: Homosexual Transexual (HSTS), someone who transitions to improve their ability to have sex with men, and Autogynephilic (AGP), someone who transitions because having a female body is sexually attractive to them. This is widely discredited but has maintained a small hold because some people find the categories funny (i.e. Is doing x thing HSTS or AGP). Anyone talking about him seriously probably doesn't know what they're talking about.
I understand the basic outline. I just don't get why this specific thing is supposed to be obviously silly. Like why wouldn't people want their body to align with their sexuality? Seems like something that happens with a whole bunch of paraphilias...
One thing of note with Blanchard's taxonomy is that during the study where he tried to prove it, he discarded any surveyed patient that didn't align with the taxonomy. It gets a lot easier to claim that trans identity is a paraphilia when you select only from subjects that have a paraphilia related to their gender identity.
I think the reason it's ridiculous is that if you distill the concept to "people would like their body to match their sexuality" then that includes almost everyone. Like I assume a generic straight man wants a body that his partner will find attractive, and also wants a body that can perform the typical male sexual role. If he goes to the gym and does some bench presses while he thinks about how hot his girlfriend will find him when he takes his shirt off, is he a crazy pervert who has an auto erotic target location error? Hopefully I don't get in trouble for this, but straight women do this to an even more obvious degree, because so much popular fashion/media has some amount of male-gaze type sexuality init.
Blanchard thinks that trans women (he never talks about trans men for some reason) are different than "regular" sexuality because we transition while doing the I-like-my-partner-to-be-attracted-to-me-in-w-eay-that-affirms-my-ideas-about-myself thing that almost everyone else does. Blanchard is unwilling to consider that changing your sex is about more than sex, so he thinks that trans women must have a uniquely intense version of this.
