-pervert assumption of Allison's last roommate http://www.dolari.org/cs/4.htm
-"I like dressing like a woman. I like _being_ a woman." http://www.dolari.org/cs/11.htm
-"Guys just aren't my thing" http://www.dolari.org/cs/16.htm
+[_Closetspace_](http://www.dolari.org/cs/index.htm) is the story of a boy named Jason who decides to live as a girl named Carrie in Texas of the late '90s or early 'aughts. Escaping family disapproval, Carrie moves in with a new housemate, Allison. The twist in the premise is, it turns out that Allison is _also_ a male-to-female transsexual, but [neither is aware of the other's secret](http://www.dolari.org/cs/31.htm).
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+The series follows Carrie and Allison as they face life's challenges—[their house gets attacked by a insurrectionist](http://www.dolari.org/cs/34.htm); Carrie gets [accidentally kidnapped by a dominatrix](http://www.dolari.org/cs/48.htm) [(who is _also_ trans)](http://www.dolari.org/cs/53.htm); [Allison copes with regrets about her own transition](http://www.dolari.org/cs/83.htm); Carrie's mom [has a stroke](http://www.dolari.org/cs/81.htm) [and dies](http://www.dolari.org/cs/153.htm), and Carrie [faces pushback](http://www.dolari.org/cs/160.htm) ([including from](http://www.dolari.org/cs/164.htm) her [previously mostly supportive](http://www.dolari.org/cs/15.htm) sister) after showing up [at the hospital](http://www.dolari.org/cs/90.htm) and [to the funeral](http://www.dolari.org/cs/158.htm) _as_ Carrie, causing her to [develop social anxiety](http://www.dolari.org/cs/178.htm); Allison [gets addicted to an old video game](http://www.dolari.org/cs/193.htm), connects with [an interior-decorating client](http://www.dolari.org/cs/116.htm) and [an old friend](http://www.dolari.org/cs/317.htm); Carrie's drag queen friend [also dies](http://www.dolari.org/cs/266.htm).
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+It wasn't something I noticed when I first encountered _Closetspace_ around 2010 or so, but knowing [what I know now](/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/), it's really striking how much the Blanchardian [two-type taxonomy](/tag/two-type-taxonomy/) shines through in the course of telling Carrie's story, not because the author intended any such reading, but because the taxonomic structure in human psychology is going to show up when you tell a story that's true to human life. (Recap for new readers: there are [two etiologically distinct types of male-to-female transsexuals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology)—an androphilic type coterminous with the most effeminate gay men, and an _autogynephilic_ type—["men who love women and want to become what they love"](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf).)
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+The author probably doesn't believe in the typology (if she's even heard of it), but _the traits line up anyway_. Carrie is straight—gynephilic (["Guys just aren't my thing"](http://www.dolari.org/cs/16.htm), she tells her sister). Carrie's gay (androphilic) drag queen friend Victor/Victoria [doesn't understand Carrie's motivations](http://www.dolari.org/cs/67.htm): "Not to mention you don't _think_ like one of 'them'", she comments on Carrie's lack of innate femininity. (Anyone can see that effeminate gays taking on female roles "make sense"; autogynephilia is harder to understand if you haven't yourself felt the tug of the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.) Heidi the (male) dominatrix [displays a working knowledge of the typology while coming on to Carrie](http://www.dolari.org/cs/268.htm): "We're both crossdressers, and we aren't anything like drag queens [...] sometimes I want to hang out with someone like me. Someone like you." Indeed!
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+pseudo-androphilia! http://www.dolari.org/cs/239.htm
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+"And I feel a longing" ... could she be more specific http://www.dolari.org/cs/231.htm
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+[TODO—paragraph about passing—
+As a quibble about realism, I'm not sure how Carrie manages to pass _without HRT_.
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+on passing—