Ray, you are a really good interviewer. You keep the discussion going. You consistently tie in answers he gave in the new questions you ask, which helps to build on the depth of the conversation. You also know the topic so well yourself that you drive the discussion forward without it stalling out. Well done!
A tip for radio interviews (prerec or 'live') is to arm your interviewee with a brief of the questions which will be asked so that they can prepare decent answers (it gives the listener the most information for their listening second). It would be ridiculous to think that interviews are done any differently. I'm not that old and the world doesn't change when it doesn't need to!
Hi Ray I work with autistic people and am autistic myself, and I feel like the autism piece is sorely missed as a major factor in this discussion by some of these professionals who may not be trained to work with autistic people or understand the way our brains work. I have a background in gender studies and have been following this issue for years now. Some day I hope that we can understand more about the relationship between these “auts”. Your videos are really important and I wanted to thank you for these discussions. Have a great day
Yes, I disagree with Dr. Blanchard when he says the AGPs he saw were not autistic because in other interviews he has said that his AGP patients were mostly the "computer nerd" type which is clearly the classical AGP autistic phenotype. AGPs have always been the computer nerd types and highly intelligent, often autistic. This is well established. Anne Onymous talks about this in her work.
@ That’s so frustrating 😅. And makes sense. If you look at studies that show the knowledge and competence of professionals in understanding, identifying, and being able to give therapy to autistic people, it shows a shocking lack of ability and awareness/insight into autism and its various presentations. It’s such an important discussion. I firmly believe that the dichotomous thinking inherent to autism is responsible for so much of what we see in this area, including the simplicity of “I identify as a woman, now I can go on female only apps” etc. What may appear to be narcissism (in some cases yes, but by no means all) is imho quite likely related to b&w thinking, and the activism resulting a strong sense of “justice and fairness” that is extremely present in our population. You throw on sexuality and it is a bit of a mess. It’s such a large topic. Thank you Ray. Sorry for rambling!
@@RayAlexWilliamsTo be fair his research was in the 80s when understanding about autism was basically limited to more extreme manifestations. Asperger’s wasn’t added to the DSM until 1994. It’s possible there were autistic men in his cohort, but they were not screened out because we didn’t have as much research around autism back then as we do now.
how amazing is this, to see such a wonderful interview with the man himself on your channel. your pursuit is an admirable one, and I share the sentiments of your mission. thank you for always providing more knowledge to this subject :)
Great interview, thoughtful questions especially as you can bring in your own experiences. Times are very different now from the 1980s. Have you interviewed Dr Az Hakeem? That would also be interesting .
There does seem to be a type that's emerging which experiences a "gnostic religious calling" to transition. This is typically someone who is an addict and who's life is a complete mess who describes having a spiritual experience of an inner voice telling them to transition. I've had people tell me of these weird spiritual experiences and transition seems to act like a rehab for them, it gives them a newfound purpose, a goal in life, a community, a structured schedule and a reason to be overseen by doctors. For these types transition is like a spiritual pilgrimage and it might be because our society lacks other religious outlets or because paganism is gaining in popularity with the younger generation.
Idk if I would see it as a spiritual thing. Though I am Christian and would describe myself as someone with gender dysphoria and feel a need to transition
@@user-rx2if3oi8n .. fantasies are just fantasies ..you cannot engineer them, they are just what turns you on and you have no control over what that happens to be. Fantasies occur in the mind first before anything else and some get to or at least try to live out their fantasies in reality.
What an awesome interview with this erudite ,learned man! I've only ever heard of him and his typology now I'm hearing him speak. I'm going to add Dr Blanchard to my farm of spirit animals. Great stuff Ray!
What a great quote [paraphrased] It's your job as a clinician to help your patient experience life with a minimum of emotional pain, not to fix the ills of society ... Basically, this is why people are able to be treated and affirmed in their chosen gender role, yet many in society castigate that method of treatment. Social dynamics and even feminist quibbles are not going to be approached by practitioners. They are using data and self-report and forming treatment decisions which will allow them to keep their license and not have a list of casualties to their name
Crazy how we went from this, to putting a diagnosis of gender dysphoria on a pedastal, as if it’s some holy grail signifier of being the opposite s ex. When all it ever really meant was “it’s clear you’re in distress and a professional thinks X treatment method might help alleviate these symptoms”.
This is great, and I think my "questions for dr blanchard" submission was answered early on! (in a general sense) It might be a further line of thought: The "puberty blockers" oft prescribed for mtf individuals includes things like Cyproterone acetate, spironalactone etc. Aren't those two types of medicines used as "chemical castration" adjuncts for patients who have damaging paraphilias, to reduce the gratification? How does that mode of treatment jibe with paraphilic disorders such as AGP being treated with chemical castration but feeling more affirmed in their decision?
Interestingly men with a cast ration fet ish also get some ero tic satisfaction from having their cast ration fanta sies fulfilled. I don’t understand it, but from the one research paper I read on it, they were generally pleased with the results.
@@StormBringer5 Are you talking orchiectomy cast iron fantasies or just chemical cast iron fantasies? For real, once you get the gonads removed you are going to have hormonal/endocrinological requirements which would be perilous to ignore. I'm just not clear on the context or type of cast iron, there are many ways to achieve this depending on how you approach life
@@gonnfishy2987 In the paper it was both. I don’t remember if they discussed hormone replacement. You can look for yourself, the paper is called “Eu nuchs in contemporary society: Characterizing men who are voluntarily cast rated”.
Ray, great interviewing skills. I want to say that what ive noticed is that hsts always want to look like barbies and get big boobs and bbls. Well the majority, and the AGPs are the more femboy/androgenous fetishistic type,.and both types seem to have some sort of autism/adhd and also have narcassistic tendancies. As both types like to be admired and seen noticed and really focus on themselves on not care so much which family members or fiends they effect with transition. Also i noticed autistic girls and girls with adhd also are more prone to hypersexual behaviour, promiscuity and fetishism, and usually identify as emo goth into kink and bdsm and also are very self focused. Not all autistic / adhd folks obviously. But theres so many common similarities. I think the only reason men get a bad wrap is because men in societies eyes shouldn't do anything classed as outwardly sexual or dress a certain way, women seem to get away with being outwardly sexual and dressing a certain way just because their women. Best place to see both types of introverted extroverts would be at a cosplay convention. I think dr blanchard should conuct studiies there. I think the reasoning behind wanting to transition if you are AGP is so you can get away with dressing as you like if almost to fly under the radar, because a man wearing a skirt or knee high boots woukd be rudiculed. If they transition then they feel they can wear the clothes now. I akso think theres an obsessive nature to of looking beautiful, as autisic brains look at things logically, whats more of an attractive face, a balding man with beard face, or a sculpted smooth womans face with perfect makeup. And the fact you can switch up looks on the fly. Men are stuck with 1 aesthetic.
13:18 I would define it as: Any form of sexuality/sexual interest. I would further subcategorize them as: Typical (plain vanilla sexuality), healthy, unhealthy (does it get in the way of a healthy loving relationship), illegal (does it involve the unconsensual harm of someone else, or a power-dynamic such that consent is unable to be given). I don't think it is particularly helpful to categorize them based on social desirability/acceptance when what we're trying to do is help an individual. Socially, all we should care about is 'is it illegal?'. If not, social acceptance shouldn't matter. 17:00 - 18:30 That's exactly how I would define it: Typical, Atypical {Not Harmful, Harmful {Harmful to the Individual, Harmful to the Society} }. Harmful to the society = illegal. Harmful = therapy. Not Harmful = Nobody's business. I would then define the study of paraphilias as the study of human sexuality.
35:15 ..this has been foremost on my mind despite the naysayers, agp is manifesting itself very early on seemingly coming from nowhere although i have strong beliefs it's a mother/son interaction that sparks the initial thought process.
congrats ...i know you wanted this. Big question is when will the penny finally drop for those in denial despite this channel obviously getting artificially smothered.
Good interview, Ray. Props to you & Dr Blanchard. But do you know why most of my comments in the chat were blocked? Is that RUclips or do you have someone keeping watch & putting the kibosh on comments deemed unacceptable? As I hope you know by now, I wasn't making comments with vulgar lingo, personal attacks or that were meant to be rude. Yes, I sometimes make points that are uncomfortable for some to read/hear, but I am not in any way abusive. I'm quite polite, in fact.
No, there were no moderators other than myself and I didn't censor anyone and no one else would have the ability to do that to my knowledge so it must have been RUclips automatically detecting keywords or something. Ive never been able to figure out youtube censorship system
@@RayAlexWilliams Thanks for answering. I figured it was RUclips's automated system. Like I told you another time before, I am so accustomed to YT zapping my comments under your videos that any time I make a comment in which I make substantive points I now copy & save it in a file called "Ray." Or rather in file that's now called "Ray & Mary Chu"
Great interview but as a homosexual transsexual I'm struggling to get any videos of information about my type of transgenderism he nearly touched on it but then said anyone that is aroused by dressing in female clothes is autogynophile. I've never been aroused dressing in female clothes I feel comfortable this way so what does that make me why are HSTS sidelined and all these discussions? I don't consider myself as part of the paraphilia realm this is never been a kink for me I just feel like myself and more comfortable not aroused in any way. As a male I struggled to fit the masculine template it felt like I was acting as a male but it wasn't who I was but as a female everything is completely natural to me the way I talk and move is coming from core being.
>>>why are HSTS sidelined and all these discussions? I will say that I focus on AGP because I am able to speak to it from my personal experience and also it constitutes the majority of the "transfemme" community and generates most if not all of the political and social controversy around transgenderism in the West. With that said, I would be happy to have you on my channel to speak from the HSTS perspective and provide insight into that experience, and how it manifests differently than the AGP etiology of male dysphoria. DM on Twitter or email me if you're interested.
I'm sorry, but his dismissal, which included snide remarks and laughter, at the notion that pornography could be the root cause of something like autogynephilia in some men seemed so bizarre to me. Is he really taking into consideration how much porn these men (and boys) are consuming? It's almost as if he were defending porn, and downplaying the side effects of major consumption for years, and exposure often occurring at younger and younger ages. That makes me more than a tad suspicious. Just because some men developed autogynephilia without such access doesn't make it impossible for it to be fully responsible for some men. We also don't know what many agp's were exposed to before the internet. What may have been just a turn on, or just an afterthought, for some men, if fed with constant exposure to porn, most definitely could be what flips the switch to make it a full on paraphilia. Has he viewed the "brainwashing" videos? They make no apologies for their goal to "brainwash" these men. Its even available on youtube. He is either completely naive to the scope of the problem of porn sick brains, the level of degeneracy of the content, the literal goal of the producers, and the age of exposure, or he is intentionally ignoring it. I don't want to believe that there could be a more nefarious reason for him snubbing the idea, but I'm too jaded at this point to think it impossible. *Fantastic interview nevertheless. I love your channel.
Why is that nonsense? I think AGP comes in a spectrum and at the low end of the spectrum it manifests as pure transvestism. That's a perfectly coherent extension of the model.
@@RayAlexWilliams getting turned on by womens clothes and by the feel and touch of them and even a masterbating is not always agp. Agp is love of oneself as a woman not loving the feel of womens closthes
Because he's in it probably. It's not even a gender thing. Society is raised on p0rn and p3rverdion and even SA. I'd day most kids who got a phone at age 7-10 or younger are addicted, most are. Childhood p0rn addiction has been an issue for for ever but isn't talked abt. Everyone's screwed up cause most aren't protected and parents are too brainwashed or are in it too. It's self @bus3 and seeing ppl @bus3 others.
Thanks for the interview and your work, Ray, although I don't agree with you (and I have a good personal reason for it), but it is a different topic. Also it is interesting that we have divergent understanding of agp. I started with clinical\"rational" approach, but I finished with poststructuralist\postmodernist approach. We are opposites in this regard, I see that you are disappointed by the vagueness of trans and queer studies and you try to find solid truth of sexuality and gender. I feel you. I respect your path and approach but I consciously abandoned it due to different reasons (ethical, clinical, tough personal history which was related to the conversion therapy and Russian\Soviet psychiatry, also I don't see how adherence to the "solid truth" helps people, we can't ignore in the field of clinical psychiatry and sexology ethical implications of different theories) Also it would be interesting to ask Dr.Blanchard the question about cognitive and neurobiological processes which can be a foundation of the agp. James Cantor claims that agp is related to the mirror neurons activity, that somehow brain subsystem related to sexuality is intertwined with the brain subsystem which is responsible for imitation. The similar process happens in the pedophilic brain, but different subsystem is involved (nurture subsystem can be mixed with sexual subsystem). Also it is important to study cognitive processes which are the part of heterosexuality. Ho do heterosexual men identify sexual target? How do they process heterosexual signals? What are the subprocesses of this process? After that it will be easy to understand what happens with agp. It is a big job for cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, but I am pessimistic that we will find solid absolute truth of sexuality. Also it is paramount to study what is the best way of action in the clinical practice. What kind of people with agp do benefit from transition? By the way, I am asexual (agp etiology) trans woman, and I wasn't influenced by the permissive culture at all, I was born in Russia which is not trans friendly at ll, Nevertheless transition saved my life.
"let's deal with semantics up front and then we can deal with actual issues" This was always supposed to be how academic writing was approached, and has been one of the biggest bugbears in this whole transgender issue. People screaming at each other because someone said "fruit is red", and one of them is imagining an apple, but the other is imagining a banana.
I disagree with Dr Blanchard's opinion that there is absolutely zero connection between porn and AGP and paraphilias in general. There is overwhelming evidence on porn addiction and porn use and how it causes a need for ever increasing novelty. While I don't think that every AGP is caused by porn, the rise of men and boys with autogynephilia and the rise in the ease of availability of niche porn are correlated.
Sexual orientation is in the thalamus which does not have sexual plasticity. We've been trying to modify men's sexual interests for over 100 years, and it is impossible. 'Corn' cannot creep into your thalamus and adjust what you are orientated to. Your orientation is laid down during hormonal growth while you are a fetus in your mothers womb. AGP is male heterosexuality with an inverted orientation (toward the self). Porn cannot cause it, period.
Ive been Autogynephillic from bedore i knew what it was, i was born before porn and what triggered my Autogynephillic tendancies were women jn general, pop stars, girls in magazines. I wabted to be them so bad as a child. Although i did keep the thoughts in my head, unitl i was 22 and saw porn. Then i started to imagine myself as the women in the scenes i watched, then started cross dressing after that. Although im not sure that if i didnt watch porn this wouldn't of happend anyway, although the porn definitely heightened the need for validation by men. And I started web camming. It was bad. I don't engage anymore and try and have this far kept autogynphillia at bay. Now I'm just interested in the topic. But back to the point, porn isn't necessary but will make the condition worse as it will give the Autogynephile ideas and fantasies he will want to act out. Before I watched porn all I wanted to do is go shopping get dressed up as a girl and go raving.
I could see porn making these thoughts worse, but I don't see it as the source. It would be difficult to find a male past the age of puberty that has never seen porn, but they're not all out there transitioning.
@RussBlake80 As Dr. Blanchard stated, porn has been around for centuries. You were not "born before porn". But as I stated, I do not believe that every AGP becomes that way due to porn. But I do believe that porn addiction has positive correlation with developing paraphilias. The use of porn is apparent in the way many AGPs talk about what "womanhood" is to them. Many are masochistic men who express their submissive desires with misogynistic language. It is pretty much as though they think being a woman is the MOST degrading thing a person can be... and THAT'S what gets then off.
@yme-v1t Porn addiction is different from casual porn viewing. I believe it is those with a porn addiction that causes progressive need for novelty which leads to them conditioning themselves to only become aroused by niche porn subtypes.
The people who are uncomfortable with their male sexuality, do they still have it? Like are they still also straightforwardly gynephilic but they feel weird about it?
are there statistics about the "desistance" rate of teenage AGP's? (or non-HSTS) if someone has anatomic AGP and physical dysphoria at 15, can it still transform into another form of AGP that is reconcilable with having a masculine body? if yes, what's the realistic probability of that?
i only got to see near the end of it but i had a bit of a question, you mention the feminine essence theory as being the work of julia serano which is true and AGPs arent actually feminine, but hsts are feminine and think of ourselves as girls from early childhood onward. why does this cross sex identification and behaviour seem totally disregarded and replaced with an "internalised homophobia" narrative in GC spaces, when by and large its masculine homosexuals who wouldnt transition that experience higher levels of internalised homophobia
Because the "feminine essence" according to the popular Serano model or the popular "Beneath the Surface" post that's shared in literally EVERY "is it just a fetish?" post is that it's not just a "feminine essence" but a "womanly essence" i.e. a subconscious identity of "woman" on the gender identity theory. And as far as why people say HSTS transition to cope with internalized homophobia or grew up in conservative environments that punished effiminacy is that many gay men report having cross sex identification as young boys but then later grew out of it as they learned to accept themselves as feminine gay men. So *merely* having cross sex identification as a femme gay boy doesn't prove an innate gender identity of a woman; whatever the "essence" is it's the essence of a feminine gay boy, not a girl trapped in a boy's body. Hope that makes sense.
@@RayAlexWilliams thank you for your response! it definitely makes sense, you mention most grow out of it and accept themselves as feminine gay males, which is true but according to the steensma study another one of the divides between persisters and desisters are persisters tended to believe and insist they're the opposite sex while desisters only wished they were. do you think it's perhaps oversimplistic to group these two together? essence language is silly, yes, but if we merely saw ourselves as gay men, wouldnt that make the decision for hsts to transition a very ego-dystonic one akin to how AGP is?
I can't believe he dimissed what you said about trans woman saying fetish is normal and a common expreince amongst trans woman. Don't this prove these trans women are men with a fetish
@@RayAlexWilliams maybe but its true those trans women are men with a fetish and delusion. They are not women. Helping them to become women is the problem. The focus should be on helping them to become men and that crossdressing for comfort and or sexual arrousal is a thing some men do
How can anyone claim to be affected by Sissy Hypno? I've watched it, and I thought it was a joke. I couldn't stop laughing. These have to be people who believe in hypnosis so they are suggestive to the placebo effect of silly tricks like that. I hope you asked Michael Bailey about this, and about if he believes in porn addiction (he doesn't).
I would assume that in my own case of autogynephilia that both nature and nurture have played a role. But since I have no other experience besides my own I wouldn’t be able to say what percentage would fall into which category. I was sexualized in my early childhood both through sexual abuse and exposure to hardcore and illegal pornography. I don’t have any memories of cross dressing or wanting female genitalia that weren’t sexual even those pre kindergarten.
I agree that women don't have agp because agp are men. But women do experience auto sexual arousal and women do get a sexual charge out of dressing up in sexy closthes to have sex some even do so and masterbate. So woman can be turned on by wearing certain closthes and fabrics because its part of their sexual experience. Its not agp because they are actual woman but it is autosexual and sometimes paraphilic. Also just because he only spoke to 1 hsts who had agp don't mean there aint 1000's more out there that he hasn't spoken to. It may be rare but hsts and agp can and coexist it the same man.
What exactly is plain vanilla hetero sex? How many people are ONLY interested in that, really? It seems like the story of a person living in a boring unfulfilling sex life is very well known, and corn is very diverse and transgressive. So I'm confused by all this.
So, after listening to the expert, l can safely say l am not AGP. Just forget hsts completely. If l was to admit agp to myself we would be on the wrong path of treatment and lying to myself. Too complex to evaluate here , but this Blanchard theory does nothing to explain my pubertal/developement/hormonal issues. I believe my condition is biological and hormonal. This could even be man made hormone issues.I am male. This is not about being a Woman. It is a medical path to take to have my brain work clearly. My god, my brain with testosterone is total mayhemic chaos. You could say it is a deformity. I have a Mother and she had severe hormone treatment for 9 months pregnancy. I was born in 1965 and had this condition for 59 years. Gender Dysphoria is just another box so we can get treatment. I am a straight male but definately not a man. Just male. Girl brain, boy body is fictional. Don't expect anyone to listen, but thankyou both Rays. I am not agp. Hormones, hormones, hormones.🦄
@@Gingerblazeas a Woman would say to a guy, you might be male but your not a man. The brain/hormone issue does not allow me the emotive and mental space of understanding being male. I would assume l have xy chromosomes. When people ask me would it not be easier to just be a man, of this l don't have a compartment that allows me to understand. To be a Woman is not it either. Being a Woman has a lot of parts that l just don't understand or want in my life. An attraction to males being the biggest one. It is complicated and l don't have all the answeres. Looking into brain and hormone developement at puberty is an area of interest. I was subconciously and physically different. The boys at school were going through puberty and l was off to the doctor f oir growing breasts. Puberty for me was long and unoticeable.Like l say, not to take away from anyone elses experience, just sharing mine. I find talking to men frustrating and superficial. How l traversed my life really.🦄
Ray, you are a really good interviewer. You keep the discussion going. You consistently tie in answers he gave in the new questions you ask, which helps to build on the depth of the conversation. You also know the topic so well yourself that you drive the discussion forward without it stalling out. Well done!
He is excellent. Well-prepared, thoughtful questions, and respectful of the interviewee.
I think exactly the opposite !
A tip for radio interviews (prerec or 'live') is to arm your interviewee with a brief of the questions which will be asked so that they can prepare decent answers (it gives the listener the most information for their listening second). It would be ridiculous to think that interviews are done any differently. I'm not that old and the world doesn't change when it doesn't need to!
Hi Ray I work with autistic people and am autistic myself, and I feel like the autism piece is sorely missed as a major factor in this discussion by some of these professionals who may not be trained to work with autistic people or understand the way our brains work. I have a background in gender studies and have been following this issue for years now. Some day I hope that we can understand more about the relationship between these “auts”. Your videos are really important and I wanted to thank you for these discussions. Have a great day
Yes, I disagree with Dr. Blanchard when he says the AGPs he saw were not autistic because in other interviews he has said that his AGP patients were mostly the "computer nerd" type which is clearly the classical AGP autistic phenotype. AGPs have always been the computer nerd types and highly intelligent, often autistic. This is well established. Anne Onymous talks about this in her work.
@ That’s so frustrating 😅. And makes sense. If you look at studies that show the knowledge and competence of professionals in understanding, identifying, and being able to give therapy to autistic people, it shows a shocking lack of ability and awareness/insight into autism and its various presentations. It’s such an important discussion. I firmly believe that the dichotomous thinking inherent to autism is responsible for so much of what we see in this area, including the simplicity of “I identify as a woman, now I can go on female only apps” etc. What may appear to be narcissism (in some cases yes, but by no means all) is imho quite likely related to b&w thinking, and the activism resulting a strong sense of “justice and fairness” that is extremely present in our population. You throw on sexuality and it is a bit of a mess. It’s such a large topic. Thank you Ray. Sorry for rambling!
Spot on! Your analysis is astute.
@@RayAlexWilliams Thanks Ray 🙏
@@RayAlexWilliamsTo be fair his research was in the 80s when understanding about autism was basically limited to more extreme manifestations. Asperger’s wasn’t added to the DSM until 1994. It’s possible there were autistic men in his cohort, but they were not screened out because we didn’t have as much research around autism back then as we do now.
Oh my god!!! Omg omg great work Ray^2.
What a fantastic guest and discussion! I loved it. More of such, please.
A two-hour convo with Dr. Michael Bailey on AGP is dropping next week. Stay tuned!
@@RayAlexWilliams And that, with your discussion with Alex Byrne, is an intellectually orgasmic experience. 🙂
how amazing is this, to see such a wonderful interview with the man himself on your channel. your pursuit is an admirable one, and I share the sentiments of your mission. thank you for always providing more knowledge to this subject :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now THIS is what you call a superstar interviewing a legend! 🔥🙌
Great interview, thoughtful questions especially as you can bring in your own experiences. Times are very different now from the 1980s. Have you interviewed Dr Az Hakeem? That would also be interesting .
this is huge. ur whole channel is so relevant to our generations and future im so glad u do what u Ray!
24:20 is carefully worded, kudos to Dr. Blanchard for being so eloquent. i hope more people can make sure they stick to this honest truth of it.
Camped outside the Ray Blanchard venue like im trying to beat the scalpers to the last AGPlaystation 5
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode 🙏 thank you both , for broadening my view and food for thought.
Have a great week ahead 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
There does seem to be a type that's emerging which experiences a "gnostic religious calling" to transition. This is typically someone who is an addict and who's life is a complete mess who describes having a spiritual experience of an inner voice telling them to transition. I've had people tell me of these weird spiritual experiences and transition seems to act like a rehab for them, it gives them a newfound purpose, a goal in life, a community, a structured schedule and a reason to be overseen by doctors. For these types transition is like a spiritual pilgrimage and it might be because our society lacks other religious outlets or because paganism is gaining in popularity with the younger generation.
I definitely think you're onto something
Idk if I would see it as a spiritual thing. Though I am Christian and would describe myself as someone with gender dysphoria and feel a need to transition
As a teenager you learned to reduce dysphoria through sexual fantasies, that's all autogynphilia.
it's the other way around. the sexual fantasies cause the dysphoria.
i think having a vivid imagination can help you to just keep it all in the head ..the problems come when you try to recreate the fantasies in reality.
@@RayAlexWilliamsfirst commenter is correct.
It is not the fantasy.
It is the fact you can not live them.
@@user-rx2if3oi8n .. fantasies are just fantasies ..you cannot engineer them, they are just what turns you on and you have no control over what that happens to be. Fantasies occur in the mind first before anything else and some get to or at least try to live out their fantasies in reality.
I love your channel Ray. You are knowledgeable and curious interviewer, have great guests and your commenters are interesting too.
Great interview Ray. And many thanks Dr Blanchard.
I appreciate this work you're doing. Great questions and looking forward to more!
Wow! What an incredible interview! 🩷
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an awesome interview with this erudite ,learned man! I've only ever heard of him and his typology now I'm hearing him speak. I'm going to add Dr Blanchard to my farm of spirit animals. Great stuff Ray!
Glad you enjoyed! Welcome to the Blanchard fun club :)
I cant wait for this!
Thank-you Dr. Blanchard and Ray. Another interesting interview. Food for thought.
Thanks for listening
Fabulous interview, thanks Ray and Dr. Blanchard!
What a great quote [paraphrased] It's your job as a clinician to help your patient experience life with a minimum of emotional pain, not to fix the ills of society ... Basically, this is why people are able to be treated and affirmed in their chosen gender role, yet many in society castigate that method of treatment. Social dynamics and even feminist quibbles are not going to be approached by practitioners. They are using data and self-report and forming treatment decisions which will allow them to keep their license and not have a list of casualties to their name
Crazy how we went from this, to putting a diagnosis of gender dysphoria on a pedastal, as if it’s some holy grail signifier of being the opposite s ex. When all it ever really meant was “it’s clear you’re in distress and a professional thinks X treatment method might help alleviate these symptoms”.
Can't wait!
Thanks Ray, this was really good
The goats unite
Amazing! I love that you’re interviewing him!!!
Did you already do the interview? We'd love to advise some questions. You should also interview Bailey and Cantor!
Bailey interview dropping next week
@@RayAlexWilliams DAMN!
Can't wait, but I guess I will have to ... see you in 10 hr
Ты серьезно😱 я в шоке что ты провел с ним стрим! Моё глубочайшее уважение 🤝🏻
Popcorn on deck 🍿🥤
This is great, and I think my "questions for dr blanchard" submission was answered early on! (in a general sense)
It might be a further line of thought: The "puberty blockers" oft prescribed for mtf individuals includes things like Cyproterone acetate, spironalactone etc. Aren't those two types of medicines used as "chemical castration" adjuncts for patients who have damaging paraphilias, to reduce the gratification? How does that mode of treatment jibe with paraphilic disorders such as AGP being treated with chemical castration but feeling more affirmed in their decision?
Interestingly men with a cast ration fet ish also get some ero tic satisfaction from having their cast ration fanta sies fulfilled. I don’t understand it, but from the one research paper I read on it, they were generally pleased with the results.
@@StormBringer5 Are you talking orchiectomy cast iron fantasies or just chemical cast iron fantasies? For real, once you get the gonads removed you are going to have hormonal/endocrinological requirements which would be perilous to ignore.
I'm just not clear on the context or type of cast iron, there are many ways to achieve this depending on how you approach life
@@gonnfishy2987 In the paper it was both. I don’t remember if they discussed hormone replacement. You can look for yourself, the paper is called “Eu nuchs in contemporary society: Characterizing men who are voluntarily cast rated”.
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Ray, great interviewing skills.
I want to say that what ive noticed is that hsts always want to look like barbies and get big boobs and bbls. Well the majority, and the AGPs are the more femboy/androgenous fetishistic type,.and both types seem to have some sort of autism/adhd and also have narcassistic tendancies. As both types like to be admired and seen noticed and really focus on themselves on not care so much which family members or fiends they effect with transition.
Also i noticed autistic girls and girls with adhd also are more prone to hypersexual behaviour, promiscuity and fetishism, and usually identify as emo goth into kink and bdsm and also are very self focused. Not all autistic / adhd folks obviously. But theres so many common similarities. I think the only reason men get a bad wrap is because men in societies eyes shouldn't do anything classed as outwardly sexual or dress a certain way, women seem to get away with being outwardly sexual and dressing a certain way just because their women.
Best place to see both types of introverted extroverts would be at a cosplay convention. I think dr blanchard should conuct studiies there.
I think the reasoning behind wanting to transition if you are AGP is so you can get away with dressing as you like if almost to fly under the radar, because a man wearing a skirt or knee high boots woukd be rudiculed.
If they transition then they feel they can wear the clothes now.
I akso think theres an obsessive nature to of looking beautiful, as autisic brains look at things logically, whats more of an attractive face, a balding man with beard face, or a sculpted smooth womans face with perfect makeup. And the fact you can switch up looks on the fly. Men are stuck with 1 aesthetic.
When did the desire to be a member of the opposite sex become 'I actually AM' a member of the opposite sex?
When you refuse the reality because it makes you too much unhappy.
When ppl started listening to p3d0 mental health professionals test normalize turning kids out and traumatizing
For my ex it happened when he started passing (or “blending”). I’m still not sure if he sees the holes in his thought process.
Great interview
OMG YES!
13:18 I would define it as: Any form of sexuality/sexual interest. I would further subcategorize them as: Typical (plain vanilla sexuality), healthy, unhealthy (does it get in the way of a healthy loving relationship), illegal (does it involve the unconsensual harm of someone else, or a power-dynamic such that consent is unable to be given).
I don't think it is particularly helpful to categorize them based on social desirability/acceptance when what we're trying to do is help an individual. Socially, all we should care about is 'is it illegal?'. If not, social acceptance shouldn't matter.
17:00 - 18:30 That's exactly how I would define it: Typical, Atypical {Not Harmful, Harmful {Harmful to the Individual, Harmful to the Society} }.
Harmful to the society = illegal.
Harmful = therapy.
Not Harmful = Nobody's business.
I would then define the study of paraphilias as the study of human sexuality.
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35:15 ..this has been foremost on my mind despite the naysayers, agp is manifesting itself very early on seemingly coming from nowhere although i have strong beliefs it's a mother/son interaction that sparks the initial thought process.
congrats ...i know you wanted this. Big question is when will the penny finally drop for those in denial despite this channel obviously getting artificially smothered.
Good interview, Ray. Props to you & Dr Blanchard. But do you know why most of my comments in the chat were blocked? Is that RUclips or do you have someone keeping watch & putting the kibosh on comments deemed unacceptable? As I hope you know by now, I wasn't making comments with vulgar lingo, personal attacks or that were meant to be rude. Yes, I sometimes make points that are uncomfortable for some to read/hear, but I am not in any way abusive. I'm quite polite, in fact.
No, there were no moderators other than myself and I didn't censor anyone and no one else would have the ability to do that to my knowledge so it must have been RUclips automatically detecting keywords or something. Ive never been able to figure out youtube censorship system
@@RayAlexWilliams Thanks for answering. I figured it was RUclips's automated system. Like I told you another time before, I am so accustomed to YT zapping my comments under your videos that any time I make a comment in which I make substantive points I now copy & save it in a file called "Ray." Or rather in file that's now called "Ray & Mary Chu"
do you have a substack? if not, I think you definitely should start one to share your knowledge in an uncensored way!
Great interview but as a homosexual transsexual I'm struggling to get any videos of information about my type of transgenderism he nearly touched on it but then said anyone that is aroused by dressing in female clothes is autogynophile. I've never been aroused dressing in female clothes I feel comfortable this way so what does that make me why are HSTS sidelined and all these discussions? I don't consider myself as part of the paraphilia realm this is never been a kink for me I just feel like myself and more comfortable not aroused in any way. As a male I struggled to fit the masculine template it felt like I was acting as a male but it wasn't who I was but as a female everything is completely natural to me the way I talk and move is coming from core being.
>>>why are HSTS sidelined and all these discussions?
I will say that I focus on AGP because I am able to speak to it from my personal experience and also it constitutes the majority of the "transfemme" community and generates most if not all of the political and social controversy around transgenderism in the West.
With that said, I would be happy to have you on my channel to speak from the HSTS perspective and provide insight into that experience, and how it manifests differently than the AGP etiology of male dysphoria. DM on Twitter or email me if you're interested.
Send me an email or DM me on Twitter.
rayalexwilliams13 [at] gmail [dot] com
I'm sorry, but his dismissal, which included snide remarks and laughter, at the notion that pornography could be the root cause of something like autogynephilia in some men seemed so bizarre to me. Is he really taking into consideration how much porn these men (and boys) are consuming? It's almost as if he were defending porn, and downplaying the side effects of major consumption for years, and exposure often occurring at younger and younger ages. That makes me more than a tad suspicious. Just because some men developed autogynephilia without such access doesn't make it impossible for it to be fully responsible for some men. We also don't know what many agp's were exposed to before the internet. What may have been just a turn on, or just an afterthought, for some men, if fed with constant exposure to porn, most definitely could be what flips the switch to make it a full on paraphilia. Has he viewed the "brainwashing" videos? They make no apologies for their goal to "brainwash" these men. Its even available on youtube. He is either completely naive to the scope of the problem of porn sick brains, the level of degeneracy of the content, the literal goal of the producers, and the age of exposure, or he is intentionally ignoring it. I don't want to believe that there could be a more nefarious reason for him snubbing the idea, but I'm too jaded at this point to think it impossible.
*Fantastic interview nevertheless. I love your channel.
Yep he got that one wrong.
He also believes all forms of transvestism is Agp which is nonsense
Why is that nonsense? I think AGP comes in a spectrum and at the low end of the spectrum it manifests as pure transvestism. That's a perfectly coherent extension of the model.
@@RayAlexWilliams getting turned on by womens clothes and by the feel and touch of them and even a masterbating is not always agp. Agp is love of oneself as a woman not loving the feel of womens closthes
Because he's in it probably. It's not even a gender thing. Society is raised on p0rn and p3rverdion and even SA. I'd day most kids who got a phone at age 7-10 or younger are addicted, most are. Childhood p0rn addiction has been an issue for for ever but isn't talked abt. Everyone's screwed up cause most aren't protected and parents are too brainwashed or are in it too. It's self @bus3 and seeing ppl @bus3 others.
Thanks for the interview and your work, Ray, although I don't agree with you (and I have a good personal reason for it), but it is a different topic. Also it is interesting that we have divergent understanding of agp. I started with clinical\"rational" approach, but I finished with poststructuralist\postmodernist approach. We are opposites in this regard, I see that you are disappointed by the vagueness of trans and queer studies and you try to find solid truth of sexuality and gender. I feel you. I respect your path and approach but I consciously abandoned it due to different reasons (ethical, clinical, tough personal history which was related to the conversion therapy and Russian\Soviet psychiatry, also I don't see how adherence to the "solid truth" helps people, we can't ignore in the field of clinical psychiatry and sexology ethical implications of different theories)
Also it would be interesting to ask Dr.Blanchard the question about cognitive and neurobiological processes which can be a foundation of the agp. James Cantor claims that agp is related to the mirror neurons activity, that somehow brain subsystem related to sexuality is intertwined with the brain subsystem which is responsible for imitation. The similar process happens in the pedophilic brain, but different subsystem is involved (nurture subsystem can be mixed with sexual subsystem). Also it is important to study cognitive processes which are the part of heterosexuality. Ho do heterosexual men identify sexual target? How do they process heterosexual signals? What are the subprocesses of this process? After that it will be easy to understand what happens with agp. It is a big job for cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, but I am pessimistic that we will find solid absolute truth of sexuality.
Also it is paramount to study what is the best way of action in the clinical practice. What kind of people with agp do benefit from transition? By the way, I am asexual (agp etiology) trans woman, and I wasn't influenced by the permissive culture at all, I was born in Russia which is not trans friendly at ll, Nevertheless transition saved my life.
"let's deal with semantics up front and then we can deal with actual issues" This was always supposed to be how academic writing was approached, and has been one of the biggest bugbears in this whole transgender issue. People screaming at each other because someone said "fruit is red", and one of them is imagining an apple, but the other is imagining a banana.
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I disagree with Dr Blanchard's opinion that there is absolutely zero connection between porn and AGP and paraphilias in general.
There is overwhelming evidence on porn addiction and porn use and how it causes a need for ever increasing novelty.
While I don't think that every AGP is caused by porn, the rise of men and boys with autogynephilia and the rise in the ease of availability of niche porn are correlated.
Sexual orientation is in the thalamus which does not have sexual plasticity. We've been trying to modify men's sexual interests for over 100 years, and it is impossible. 'Corn' cannot creep into your thalamus and adjust what you are orientated to. Your orientation is laid down during hormonal growth while you are a fetus in your mothers womb. AGP is male heterosexuality with an inverted orientation (toward the self). Porn cannot cause it, period.
Ive been Autogynephillic from bedore i knew what it was, i was born before porn and what triggered my Autogynephillic tendancies were women jn general, pop stars, girls in magazines. I wabted to be them so bad as a child. Although i did keep the thoughts in my head, unitl i was 22 and saw porn. Then i started to imagine myself as the women in the scenes i watched, then started cross dressing after that. Although im not sure that if i didnt watch porn this wouldn't of happend anyway, although the porn definitely heightened the need for validation by men. And I started web camming. It was bad. I don't engage anymore and try and have this far kept autogynphillia at bay. Now I'm just interested in the topic. But back to the point, porn isn't necessary but will make the condition worse as it will give the Autogynephile ideas and fantasies he will want to act out. Before I watched porn all I wanted to do is go shopping get dressed up as a girl and go raving.
I could see porn making these thoughts worse, but I don't see it as the source. It would be difficult to find a male past the age of puberty that has never seen porn, but they're not all out there transitioning.
@RussBlake80 As Dr. Blanchard stated, porn has been around for centuries. You were not "born before porn".
But as I stated, I do not believe that every AGP becomes that way due to porn. But I do believe that porn addiction has positive correlation with developing paraphilias.
The use of porn is apparent in the way many AGPs talk about what "womanhood" is to them. Many are masochistic men who express their submissive desires with misogynistic language. It is pretty much as though they think being a woman is the MOST degrading thing a person can be... and THAT'S what gets then off.
@yme-v1t Porn addiction is different from casual porn viewing. I believe it is those with a porn addiction that causes progressive need for novelty which leads to them conditioning themselves to only become aroused by niche porn subtypes.
The people who are uncomfortable with their male sexuality, do they still have it? Like are they still also straightforwardly gynephilic but they feel weird about it?
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are there statistics about the "desistance" rate of teenage AGP's? (or non-HSTS)
if someone has anatomic AGP and physical dysphoria at 15, can it still transform into another form of AGP that is reconcilable with having a masculine body? if yes, what's the realistic probability of that?
i only got to see near the end of it but i had a bit of a question, you mention the feminine essence theory as being the work of julia serano which is true and AGPs arent actually feminine, but hsts are feminine and think of ourselves as girls from early childhood onward. why does this cross sex identification and behaviour seem totally disregarded and replaced with an "internalised homophobia" narrative in GC spaces, when by and large its masculine homosexuals who wouldnt transition that experience higher levels of internalised homophobia
Because the "feminine essence" according to the popular Serano model or the popular "Beneath the Surface" post that's shared in literally EVERY "is it just a fetish?" post is that it's not just a "feminine essence" but a "womanly essence" i.e. a subconscious identity of "woman" on the gender identity theory.
And as far as why people say HSTS transition to cope with internalized homophobia or grew up in conservative environments that punished effiminacy is that many gay men report having cross sex identification as young boys but then later grew out of it as they learned to accept themselves as feminine gay men. So *merely* having cross sex identification as a femme gay boy doesn't prove an innate gender identity of a woman; whatever the "essence" is it's the essence of a feminine gay boy, not a girl trapped in a boy's body. Hope that makes sense.
@@RayAlexWilliams thank you for your response! it definitely makes sense, you mention most grow out of it and accept themselves as feminine gay males, which is true but according to the steensma study another one of the divides between persisters and desisters are persisters tended to believe and insist they're the opposite sex while desisters only wished they were. do you think it's perhaps oversimplistic to group these two together?
essence language is silly, yes, but if we merely saw ourselves as gay men, wouldnt that make the decision for hsts to transition a very ego-dystonic one akin to how AGP is?
I can't believe he dimissed what you said about trans woman saying fetish is normal and a common expreince amongst trans woman. Don't this prove these trans women are men with a fetish
That's a gross oversimplication
@@RayAlexWilliams maybe but its true those trans women are men with a fetish and delusion. They are not women. Helping them to become women is the problem. The focus should be on helping them to become men and that crossdressing for comfort and or sexual arrousal is a thing some men do
How can anyone claim to be affected by Sissy Hypno? I've watched it, and I thought it was a joke. I couldn't stop laughing.
These have to be people who believe in hypnosis so they are suggestive to the placebo effect of silly tricks like that.
I hope you asked Michael Bailey about this, and about if he believes in porn addiction (he doesn't).
Because they’re sexually aroused by it thus they are more suggestible. The male sex drive is extremely powerful
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I would assume that in my own case of autogynephilia that both nature and nurture have played a role. But since I have no other experience besides my own I wouldn’t be able to say what percentage would fall into which category. I was sexualized in my early childhood both through sexual abuse and exposure to hardcore and illegal pornography.
I don’t have any memories of cross dressing or wanting female genitalia that weren’t sexual even those pre kindergarten.
I agree that women don't have agp because agp are men. But women do experience auto sexual arousal and women do get a sexual charge out of dressing up in sexy closthes to have sex some even do so and masterbate. So woman can be turned on by wearing certain closthes and fabrics because its part of their sexual experience. Its not agp because they are actual woman but it is autosexual and sometimes paraphilic. Also just because he only spoke to 1 hsts who had agp don't mean there aint 1000's more out there that he hasn't spoken to. It may be rare but hsts and agp can and coexist it the same man.
What exactly is plain vanilla hetero sex? How many people are ONLY interested in that, really? It seems like the story of a person living in a boring unfulfilling sex life is very well known, and corn is very diverse and transgressive. So I'm confused by all this.
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So, after listening to the expert, l can safely say l am not AGP. Just forget hsts completely. If l was to admit agp to myself we would be on the wrong path of treatment and lying to myself. Too complex to evaluate here , but this Blanchard theory does nothing to explain my pubertal/developement/hormonal issues. I believe my condition is biological and hormonal. This could even be man made hormone issues.I am male. This is not about being a Woman. It is a medical path to take to have my brain work clearly. My god, my brain with testosterone is total mayhemic chaos. You could say it is a deformity. I have a Mother and she had severe hormone treatment for 9 months pregnancy. I was born in 1965 and had this condition for 59 years. Gender Dysphoria is just another box so we can get treatment. I am a straight male but definately not a man. Just male. Girl brain, boy body is fictional. Don't expect anyone to listen, but thankyou both Rays. I am not agp. Hormones, hormones, hormones.🦄
Have you ever experienced an episode of arousal as a young person upon thinking about being the opposite sex?
@@RayAlexWilliamscan't say that l have Ray. I'm not the opposite sex.🦄
I believe you, but don't understand how you perceive male and man as different from one another. Would like to understand better.
@@Gingerblazeas a Woman would say to a guy, you might be male but your not a man. The brain/hormone issue does not allow me the emotive and mental space of understanding being male. I would assume l have xy chromosomes. When people ask me would it not be easier to just be a man, of this l don't have a compartment that allows me to understand. To be a Woman is not it either. Being a Woman has a lot of parts that l just don't understand or want in my life. An attraction to males being the biggest one. It is complicated and l don't have all the answeres. Looking into brain and hormone developement at puberty is an area of interest. I was subconciously and physically different. The boys at school were going through puberty and l was off to the doctor f oir growing breasts. Puberty for me was long and unoticeable.Like l say, not to take away from anyone elses experience, just sharing mine. I find talking to men frustrating and superficial. How l traversed my life really.🦄
Did he say that fraternal birth order influence ssa in later born ?!
younger born are more likely to be SSA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male_sexual_orientation
@@RayAlexWilliams thank you .... What about dysphoria Can birth order has an impact on kids with older sisters or brothers
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I love your channel Ray. You are knowledgeable and curious interviewer, have great guests and your commenters are interesting too.
Wow, thank you!