Ray Blanchard

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Ray Blanchard
@BlanchardPhD
Researcher in sexual orientation, paraphilias, & gender identity disorders
Torontoindividual.utoronto.ca/ray_blanchard2011年10月からTwitterを利用しています
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Ray Blanchard
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Twitter has unlocked my account and graciously apologized for their error. My sincere thanks to the people who expressed their concern during the past 24 hours.
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Trans rights activists have tried to label the word ‘autogynephilia’ as a slur in hopes of preventing people from using the word and spreading knowledge of the phenomenon. I invented the word as a neutral, clinical descriptor, not as a slur, as shown here: rdcu.be/b57bu
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It has been a disappointment to me that colleagues whom I generally like and respect have adopted the “sex assigned at birth” locution, either because they are afraid of their own students, or because they believe that implicitly endorsing this falsehood is essentially harmless.
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I hope that more and more ordinary trans people will speak out against the worst excesses of trans activism as more and more trans people realize that extremist activism is increasing resentment and decreasing acceptance of trans people.
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I and other clinicians have noted an element of exhibitionism in many (although not all) cases of autogynephilia. I think this is one reason why some natal male gender dysphorics insist on participating in women's competitive sports.
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Trans rights activists have claimed that natal women commonly experience sexual excitement from the simple thought of being women as a way of “normalizing” this phenomenon in AGP men. Research shows autogynephilia is actually rare/nonexistent in women: rdcu.be/cQv78
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My view: Transsexuals have a mental disorder whose discomfort is ameliorated when society and individuals indulge them with reasonable compromises. This is a traditional psychiatric view although it is rarely stated that bluntly.
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Nineteen out of 20 times one can tell, after a brief interaction with a male-to-female transsexual, if the individual is of the homosexual or autogynephilic type. They retain, as it were, the accent of their birthplace.
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Earlier today I wrote this thread in response to a follower who asked me, “What is your actual position on transgender people?” It looks like my reply has not been delivered to a single person besides the original inquirer, so I am reposting it here.
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In my view, trans activism changed in character when it affiliated with the social justice movement, re-framed transsexualism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem, and adopted SJW tactics such as no-platforming and getting people fired for their opinions.
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THINGS I MISS: 1. The ideals of self-control and self-restraint. 2. Social disapproval of hyperbole and exaggeration. 3. The concept of good taste. 4. Dry understatement. 5. Social disapproval of mawkishness and sentimentality. 6. Precision in language.
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I'm not going to argue, on Twitter or anywhere else, with people so naïve that they think giving an interview to a conservative publication must mean that one holds conservative views in private life, or that giving an interview to a liberal publication means the opposite.
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Here’s an irony. The Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health was closed for essentially the opposite reason that London’s Tavistock Clinic is being closed: The CAMH clinic wasn’t affirming enough.
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Clinical sexologists who endorse “You are who you say you are” have probably never worked outside the gender identity bubble. In sex offender assessment clinics, patients routinely deny having a paraphilic preference, often despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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I now understand that the locution, “Robin *identifies as* [gay, Jewish, aboriginal]” instead of “Robin *is* [gay, Jewish, aboriginal]” is not merely an affected, pretentious way of speaking. It’s about denying the possibility of objective, stable, external reality.
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(6) The sex of a postoperative transsexual should be analogous to a legal fiction. This legal fiction would apply to some things (e.g., sex designation on a driver’s license) but not to others (entering a sports competition as one’s adopted sex).
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The “debunking” of autogynephilia is in good company with the debunking of biological sex and the debunking of natal males’ physical advantage in competitive sport.
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The strategy of re-framing trans as a civil rights issue rather than a clinical issue changed the main question from “How to lessen the emotional distress of persons with a rare psychiatric disorder” to “How to reconcile the conflicting rights of natal women and trans women.”
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Many or most extremist trans rights activists are autogynephiles, natal males sexually attracted to women and desirous of becoming women. They direct their ire at women because it is women who frustrate their desires. Men are largely irrelevant. 1/3
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When I worked at a Gender Identity Clinic (1980-1995), clinicians considered transition an option only for patients with severe gender dysphoria. Our clinicians believed that patients with mild or fluctuating degrees of gender dysphoria would probably maximize their overall…
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Are people who end their tweets with “No debate,” “End of story,” “Sit down and shut up” accustomed to others actually obeying such commands? Or is this fantasy of control just another fantasy that makes on-line preferable to real life?
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Journal editors take note: The “assigned at birth“ locution is claptrap.
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You may find it interesting to know that as a radiologist, I can confidently determine the sex of a baby as early as the 15th week of pregnancy. This baby is a GIRL. I'm not assigning I'm describing. All the talk of "assigning" sex is unscientific, obscurantist claptrap.
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The terms “male-to-female transsexual” and “female-to-male transsexual” were instantly comprehensible. A native English-speaker who never saw either term before could tell immediately who had started where and was going where. This is not true of “trans woman” or “trans man.”
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Capture of DSM5: “The term ‘desired gender’ is now ‘experienced gender,’ the term ‘cross-sex medical procedure’ is now ‘gender-affirming medical procedure,’ and the term ‘natal male’/’natal female’ is now ‘individual assigned male/female at birth.’”
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Updated DSM-5 Text Revisions to Be Released in March
With contributions from more than 200 subject matter experts, the updated volume boasts the most current text updates based on the scientific literature.
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I am afraid that the public's perception of all transsexuals - including decent, intelligent, reasonable people - will be soured by the obnoxious behaviour of "activists" they never asked to speak for them.
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Acceptance of homosexuals does not require heterosexuals to participate in homosexual acts. In contrast, acceptance of transsexuals always requires the active participation of others – at a minimum, using trans’ preferred pronouns. This sets a higher bar for acceptance.
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I have learned a lot on Twitter. For example, how enormously people differ in the amount of evidence they require for making an assertion. I honestly didn’t realize so many people would just make stuff up.
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I'm not bothered when transsexuals say things like "sex assigned at birth," because that arises from their emotional needs. I'm grossed out when academics parrot that lingo for the purpose of virtue-signalling and maintaining status among their tribe.
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Some cases of autogynephilia have an exhibitionistic element. Therefore I am skeptical of male-to-female trans who want to use a women’s gym because they have an overwhelming need to swim or work out. Some are there to show off, although it's not always clear what.
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Clinicians who describe themselves as “allies” of trans and who support transition in every case are actually allies of the disorder and not allies of the patient.
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It’s self-defeating for trans activists to assert that people who are sexually uninterested in trans are therefore transphobic. This will simply lead people to say, “OK, then, I’m transphobic.”
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In most areas, I would automatically take the opinion of an expert over that of a lay person. In the field of gender/trans, however, many “experts” are ideologues and activists, and they cannot be relied on for objective opinions.
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Gender dysphoria (including its severe form, transsexualism) is not the same as gender ideology. Many patients — nearly all before the internet — developed gender dysphoria in isolation from other trans and yet presented with similar symptoms.
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In the 1970-80s, clinicians tried to help gender-dysphoric patients lead happier lives. They weren’t trying to help them impose their subjective view of reality on the rest of the population, much less do so by force of law.
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I never imagined, when I joined the Clarke Gender Clinic in 1980, that someday debates concerning trans would concern, not clinical management, but fundamental perceptions of reality, with many “normal” people supporting the trans view because of fashions in moral superiority.
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My beliefs include the following 6 elements: (1) Transsexualism and milder forms of gender dysphoria are types of mental disorder, which may leave the individual with average or even above-average functioning in unrelated areas of life.
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Biological sex is immutable, but hormones and surgery can help simulate the opposite-sex phenotype, and this usually alleviates intractable gender dysphoria. Postoperative sex is essentially a legal fiction, which most people will accept in some but not all situations.
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Biological sex is immutable. If you don't believe in biological sex than you don't believe in transsexuals. You can not medically transition UNLESS you acknowledge your biology. There, I said it. #IStandWithMaya #JKRowling
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“Trans women are women” is a political slogan sold as the product of science. I say this as someone who believes that it is humane and appropriate to treat trans women as women in most everyday situations (not including, for example, competitive sports).
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Subtweet to many tweets: Nobody believes that humans can change sex. The questions are whether imitating the phenotype and behavior of the opposite sex ameliorates gender dysphorics’ mental suffering, and whether, how, or how much ordinary citizens should support such transition.
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My sin, in creating the term ‘autogynephilia,’ was in providing the word needed to make a thought thinkable. Trans activists have tried their best since then to extirpate that word from the English language.
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Critics of transgenderism who focus exclusively on its sociopolitical aspects and ignore its origins in individual psychopathology are unwittingly playing by the rules set by trans rights activists. They'd rather discuss definitions of women than their desires to become them. 3/3
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I “believe in” gender identity in the sense that I believe some individuals have a complex of emotions and cognitions centred on the idea that they are, or should have been, the opposite sex, and I believe that preoccupation with these ideas causes considerable distress.
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I’m debating a new policy: No tweeting links to any paper that uses the phrase “sex assigned at birth.” Unfortunately, some of my friends have taken up this locution, thinking it’s a harmless sop to SJW-leaning readers or a way to avoid conflict with their younger co-authors.
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(5) There are two main types of gender dysphoria in males, one associated with homosexuality and one associated with autogynephilia. Traditionally, the great bulk of female-to-male transsexuals has been homosexual in erotic object choice.
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My holiday message: Autogynephilia per se does not make men obnoxious, nor does autogynephilic gender dysphoria. Autogynephilia in combination with other paraphilias or with personality disorders makes autogynephiles obnoxious.
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If you have notable accomplishments, you can use social media to call attention your accomplishments. If you have no accomplishments, no intellectual gifts, no striking beauty, and no charm or charisma, you can call attention to your endlessly fascinating (to you) gender identity
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(4) Gender dysphoria is not a sexual orientation, but it is virtually always preceded or accompanied by an atypical sexual orientation – in males, either homosexuality (sexual arousal by members of one’s own biological sex) . . .
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In my perception, LGB Alliances have been springing up around the world, not because LGB’s reject T’s, but because many LGB’s reject the extremist policies being pushed by T activists.
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It was natural and inevitable that autogynephilic trans activists would come to resent lesbians. Lesbians are the ego-ideal, the synthesis of the desire to be women and to have women, and their rejection is “the most unkindest cut of all.”
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