I am writing in response to ’s question about my clinical experience (1980-1995) with autogynephiles’ hostility toward woman. The short answer is that I never saw any evidence of hostility toward women as a sex-class.
I did see evidence of hostility toward specific women in a patient’s life, women who thwarted the patient’s desire to feminize himself. In two extremely unusual cases, this led the patient to kill the obstructing woman in a fit of rage. I also, of course, observed much lower levels of resentment toward women who refused to accept autogynephiles as women like themselves. I do not, however, see that as hostility toward women as a sex-class.
One may well wonder what has changed since the days when I was interviewing gender patients and the present day, when autogynephilic MTF trans’ expressions of hatred toward women as a sex-class are not rare. I can only speculate about that. I think there are at least two possible factors, both of which concern broad changes in the social environment.
The first is the rise of the social justice movement (“Wokism”), which coincided with trans activists reframing transsexualism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. In this worldview, the only role for uncooperative women is that of oppressor, and hatred of oppressors is natural and virtuous. The second factor is the internet, which amplifies and distorts many human emotions. Before the internet, it required effort for autogynephiles and autogynephilic gender dysphorics to find one another. After the internet, this because easy, and it led to the formation of echo chambers, which can be pathogenic in their effects.