IMHO no, as long as a trans beliefs which don’t reflect easily observable reality, it is a type of illness like any other delusion - they are too thin, too fat, not clean, they should be crippled, they are Jesus, they are controlled by thoughts of other people, they are a space alien…
Affirming a delusion leads to harm to the person and others around them - they damage their skin, they die of starvation, they get arrested, they give away money, they attempt rape.
In the case of trans, affirmation can be quite damaging. you are the wrong sex, sex can be changed, disagreement is hatred, you can control language people use, early surgery works better, calling you your actual sex is violence, you can kill your old self, your genitals have actually changed, you will feel better after mutilation, children can be trans, nobody is wrong about feelings, anyone can be a woman, women is about a vagina, your parents hate you… the list is endless really. All due to affirmation of a mental illness called trans
The illness is not dysphoria, that is a symptom, the illness is delusion. When reality doesn’t match the delusion you have dysphoria.
There is no other diagnosis, it is completely consistent with all other delusions, and the further down the rabbit hole you go, the more damaged you become.
By that do you mean: "Dismayed by radical feminists who rejected his allyship, Shupe then rejected ‘gender critical’ politics in 2022," or are there other facts that weren't included here?
Rejecting allyship is hardly the same as vilification.
There is a tranche of radical feminism that seems incapable of analyzing anything beyond their repulsion with AGP. I have encountered them arguing that scientific terms such as autogynephilia are made up to excuse the behavior, so no one should use them. If someone uses a wrong pronoun to say something otherwise acceptable, this tranche of social media activist will jump in to demand they stop. I have heard space hosts interrupt to correct speakers critical of gender because they say "trans women" instead of "trans identifying men" or some other such construction. This insufferable behavior is the exact mirror of TRAs. It repels normies and does nothing to reduce the number of AGP men in the world.
I agree with maybe 95 to 98 percent of the critique of this male paraphilia by women in general, radfems in particular. The "narcissism of small differences" accounts for the hostility one meets for disagreeing at the margins, usually over the solutions proposed.
There is a strain of thinking that the whole phenomenon is a result of p0rn, and would go away if we just got rid of the porn; and when that inevitably fails to make the bad men go away, the bad men can simply be jailed or quarantined or somehow shamed into putting on pants. There is another strain of thinking that it's all the fault of gay men, or a conspiracy of billionaires.
This is why the tranche of radfems I mentioned loathe Michael Bailey et al and blame them for the trans fad. Their beliefs are incompatible with the, you know, science of AGP. Recall that in my interview with Bailey, he debunked the role of p0rn using survey evidence. Mark Doyle, the man who threatened to destroy the building at the next Genspect conference, lost his mind and started threatening me because I debunked his conspiracy theory that Phil Illy had cooked up that survey evidence.
There are a number of AGP men who have reached out to gender critical feminists and offered support. These are men who recognise that AGP is a mental health problem / dysfunctional sexuality, and that they are men. They have tried to use their voices to defend women’s single sex spaces and point out the trans women are male. This is offering support not trying to join our clubs and pretend that they are us.
Unfortunately, when men do this, they get abuse from both sides. The TRAs want to burn them as heretics, traitors. And a certain group of women just hate them for being gender non-conforming men who wear dresses. Never mind that they don’t claim to be women. I’m talking about people like Kelly J Keen. They don’t all call themselves gender critical feminists but some do.
Some of these men have otherwise robust mental health like Debbie Hayton and Phil illy. They are able to weather the storm and keep to their principles. But for many men, AGP is just one of a complex of mental health problems. They break under the strain and either self self-destruct or go back to the TRA’s who love bomb them. Thus you see people de-transition and then re-transition.
There’s a similar story with some trans identified women who re-transition after they are rejected by the lesbians. We need to stop the nasty. It is so destructive.
This raises a few questions:
1. Are there any trans people who are not mentally ill?
2. Is adopting a trans identity an indicator of mental illness in and of itself?
3. Are any of the men who claim to identify as women not autogynephiles?
3. The gay ones, per Blanchard
2. According to the DSM, yes, which is why that had to be Nerfed
1. See number 2
IMHO no, as long as a trans beliefs which don’t reflect easily observable reality, it is a type of illness like any other delusion - they are too thin, too fat, not clean, they should be crippled, they are Jesus, they are controlled by thoughts of other people, they are a space alien…
Affirming a delusion leads to harm to the person and others around them - they damage their skin, they die of starvation, they get arrested, they give away money, they attempt rape.
In the case of trans, affirmation can be quite damaging. you are the wrong sex, sex can be changed, disagreement is hatred, you can control language people use, early surgery works better, calling you your actual sex is violence, you can kill your old self, your genitals have actually changed, you will feel better after mutilation, children can be trans, nobody is wrong about feelings, anyone can be a woman, women is about a vagina, your parents hate you… the list is endless really. All due to affirmation of a mental illness called trans
The illness is not dysphoria, that is a symptom, the illness is delusion. When reality doesn’t match the delusion you have dysphoria.
There is no other diagnosis, it is completely consistent with all other delusions, and the further down the rabbit hole you go, the more damaged you become.
Why is the note dated 12/25/25 ... ?
Because I only just got used to typing "2025" LOL. Fixed
The doctors that did this are guilty of negligent homicide.
The story also shows the harm that comes from the vilification of AGPs. Ladies, please don’t do it. They’re human too.
Just breaks my heart. What a mess.
Vilification of AGPs?
By that do you mean: "Dismayed by radical feminists who rejected his allyship, Shupe then rejected ‘gender critical’ politics in 2022," or are there other facts that weren't included here?
Rejecting allyship is hardly the same as vilification.
There is a tranche of radical feminism that seems incapable of analyzing anything beyond their repulsion with AGP. I have encountered them arguing that scientific terms such as autogynephilia are made up to excuse the behavior, so no one should use them. If someone uses a wrong pronoun to say something otherwise acceptable, this tranche of social media activist will jump in to demand they stop. I have heard space hosts interrupt to correct speakers critical of gender because they say "trans women" instead of "trans identifying men" or some other such construction. This insufferable behavior is the exact mirror of TRAs. It repels normies and does nothing to reduce the number of AGP men in the world.
"This insufferable behavior is the exact mirror of TRAs. It repels normies and does nothing to reduce the number of AGP men in the world."
Well, that's not good.
Let's put aside radical feminists. To what extent is women's criticism of AGPs justified?
I agree with maybe 95 to 98 percent of the critique of this male paraphilia by women in general, radfems in particular. The "narcissism of small differences" accounts for the hostility one meets for disagreeing at the margins, usually over the solutions proposed.
There is a strain of thinking that the whole phenomenon is a result of p0rn, and would go away if we just got rid of the porn; and when that inevitably fails to make the bad men go away, the bad men can simply be jailed or quarantined or somehow shamed into putting on pants. There is another strain of thinking that it's all the fault of gay men, or a conspiracy of billionaires.
This is why the tranche of radfems I mentioned loathe Michael Bailey et al and blame them for the trans fad. Their beliefs are incompatible with the, you know, science of AGP. Recall that in my interview with Bailey, he debunked the role of p0rn using survey evidence. Mark Doyle, the man who threatened to destroy the building at the next Genspect conference, lost his mind and started threatening me because I debunked his conspiracy theory that Phil Illy had cooked up that survey evidence.
There are a number of AGP men who have reached out to gender critical feminists and offered support. These are men who recognise that AGP is a mental health problem / dysfunctional sexuality, and that they are men. They have tried to use their voices to defend women’s single sex spaces and point out the trans women are male. This is offering support not trying to join our clubs and pretend that they are us.
Unfortunately, when men do this, they get abuse from both sides. The TRAs want to burn them as heretics, traitors. And a certain group of women just hate them for being gender non-conforming men who wear dresses. Never mind that they don’t claim to be women. I’m talking about people like Kelly J Keen. They don’t all call themselves gender critical feminists but some do.
Some of these men have otherwise robust mental health like Debbie Hayton and Phil illy. They are able to weather the storm and keep to their principles. But for many men, AGP is just one of a complex of mental health problems. They break under the strain and either self self-destruct or go back to the TRA’s who love bomb them. Thus you see people de-transition and then re-transition.
There’s a similar story with some trans identified women who re-transition after they are rejected by the lesbians. We need to stop the nasty. It is so destructive.
But but but it feels so good