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1 Title: Book Endorsement: Phil Illy's <em>Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex</em>
2 Date: 2023-06-21 14:10
3 Category: other
4 Tags: two-type taxonomy, review (book)
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6 I'm going to make this a brief "endorsement" rather than a detailed "review", because the most important thing about [this book](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153682201-autoheterosexual) is that it exists. There just doesn't seem to have been a polished, popular-level book-form introduction to autogynephilia/autoandrophilia before!
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8 (Previously, the secondary sources I've referred to most often were Kay Brown's blog [_On the Science of Changing Sex_](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/), and Anne Lawrence's _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_, but neither of those is hitting exactly the same niche.)
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10 Readers who are already familiar with the two-type taxonomy might be inclined to pass on a popular-level book, but the wealth of scholarly citations Illy provides (coming out to 65 pages of endnotes) make _Autoheteroseuxal_ a valuable reference even to those who are already [approximately](/2022/Jul/the-two-type-taxonomy-is-a-useful-approximation-for-a-more-detailed-causal-model/) sold on the big picture. Consider [buying a copy!](https://www.amazon.com/Autoheterosexual-Attracted-Being-Other-Sex-ebook/dp/B0C62L2GJW/)