I just watched the respected author/historian, Mark Felton’s recent YT upload titled “Was Hermann Göring Gay?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7SDnOvL-jg

Mark concludes that Göring exhibits homeovestism as something of an open question. It is the first time I have encountered the idea and terminology. I have no skin in the game, and am only genuinely curious how this lenses in the community.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homeovestism

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    “Unsettled science” is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:

    Scientific criticisms commonly made against Blanchard’s research include that the typology is unfalsifiable because Blanchard and other supporters regularly dismiss or ignore data that challenges the theory

    You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on “Transfeminist critique”, “Transgender men”, and “Societal impact.” I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3

    Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven’t had a sexual thought in their lives.