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AutogynephiliaFetishistic transvestism / Transvestic festihism
Posted November 26, 2024 by Jane_Merrydaughter in ItsAFetish

Since listening to Gender: A Wider Lens Episode 193, I have been thinking about guest Dr Az Hakeem’s advice to gender critical feminists that we sharpen up our critique by not saying autogynephilia or AGP as shorthand for “transvestic fetishism” and “fetishistic transvestism.”

Just because the phenomenon has been formally depathologized recently doesn’t mean transvestic fetishism does not exist in society and culture.

I think it teases it out from sexual paraphilia, sissification, feminization, and the bodily focus of AGP and opens context for policy discussion of women’s sex-based rights vs transvestic fetishistic claims of “gender identity.”

Transvestism is a useful concept for speaking about the everyday practice of the gendered spectrum of all kinds of fashion, masking, dressing, and appearing. A New Transvestism!?

I’m just spitballing.

I am curious to hear what the circle thinks.

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RNPhalaropeNovember 30, 2024

I thought that podcast was great. I probably need to listen to it a second time. I think distinguishing the different kinds of fetishes was interesting and important in discussing these issues. Especially bathroom and locker room access, etc