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.
Please don't try to coin or use new potential slurs like "timmy." We take slurs seriously. Please edit your post to remove it or it will be removed.
I've already seen it on this site as well as others that I wouldn't dream of using, lol not attempting to coin a slur, but ok I'll fix it
Thanks!