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Autogynephilia and Autoandrophilia in Non-Sex and Gender Dysphoric Persons.
Dr. Tracie O'keefe

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This paper qualitatively reviews 10 cases of people who presented to the author, over a period of 30 years, with autogynephilia (males who superimpose psycho-imaginary female body images upon themselves during sexual fantasy) and autoandrophilia (females who superimpose psycho-imaginary male body images upon themselves during sexual fantasy) without showing any signs or minimal signs of sex or gender dysphoria. The participants are evenly divided into five females and five males who have both short and long-term cross-sex self-identification during sexual fantasising.

Since the publication of Ray Blanchard's paper (1989) suggesting that transsexual males suffered from a mental illness, namely a misdirected sex drive, Anne Lawrence (1999) and J Michael Bailey (2003) have joined him in this hypothesis. Blanchard's autogynephilia/transsexualism model was based solely in the medical research methodological paradigm that sought pathological etiology as opposed to anthropological, sociological or sexological explorations of wellness. The international sex and gender diverse community, however, hotly contested that transsexualism and transgenderism are necessarily paraphelias or mental aberrations but more likely sex and gender variations in nature and nurture.

In qualitatively profiling and analysing these 10 persons, it clearly demonstrates that the links between primary or secondary sex or gender dysphoria, autogynephilia and autoandrophilia may at times only be incidental rather than causative. These cases further show that such cross-sex body fantasising exists in the general population who do not desire to undergo any form of real-life bodily alteration or engage in any everyday cross-gender social presentation activities. This shows that previous research, based on the observational premise of perceived pathology into the concepts of autogynephilia and autoandrophilia, were likely to have been monoculturally biased research.

Tracie O'keefe

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	Autogynephilia and Autoandrophilia in Non-Sex and Gender Dysphoric Persons.	Tracie O'keefe	14'00
	Autogynephilia and Autoandrophilia in Non-Sex and Gender Dysphoric Persons.	Tracie O'keefe

Dr. Tracie O'keefe

Tracie O’Keefe is a doctor of clinical hypnotherapy, psychotherapist, counsellor, sex therapist, trainer and researcher, director of the Australian Health & Education Centre in Sydney, co-author of Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference (1997), author of Sex Gender and Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations (1999), co-editor of Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex & Gender Diversity (2003), member of the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers & Therapists (ASSERT) and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). www.tracieokeefe.com Link to full text of paper is at http://www.tracieokeefe.com/Autogynephilia.htm