Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two distinct etiologies for MtF transsexualism: the primary type are males who behave extremely effeminately from early childhood in a way that is obvious to everyone, grow up to be attracted to men, and transition in their late teens because they find it easier to fit into society as women than as super-femme gay men. The second type, more common in Western countries, were fairly typical as boys but after puberty somehow develop autogynephilia, a kind of misdirected ordinary heterosexuality in which in addition to wanting to get the girl, they want to, ah, be the girl.
Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two distinct etiologies for MtF transsexualism: the primary type are males who behave extremely effeminately from early childhood in a way that is obvious to everyone, grow up to be attracted to men, and transition in their late teens because they find it easier to fit into society as women than as super-femme gay men. The second type, more common in Western countries, were fairly typical as boys but after puberty somehow develop autogynephilia, a kind of misdirected ordinary heterosexuality in which in addition to wanting to get the girl, they want to, ah, be the girl.
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