Elizabeth’s Reviews > The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism > Status Update
Elizabeth
is on page 193 of 249
Made it to transsexualism and autogynephilia. This part seems even murkier. Some unprofessional sexualizing of his subjects, plus I have some major questions about these methods (at least, as they're conveyed here). How can you be sure your results are unbiased when you assume your subjects are lying? Was this compared to self-eroticism in cis women? How many trans women were actually studied?
— Jul 23, 2018 09:15PM
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Elizabeth
is on page 123 of 249
Some parts reasonable, others problematically loose. Some examples:
* Mentions a study that concludes people can't distinguish gay and straight men by appearance, then says he intuitively knows there are differences anyway.
* Entertains ludicrous claims: "If gay men are correct in their suspicion that male bisexuality exists, this second twin is probably gay." I can give an easy counterexample to this.
— Jul 22, 2018 01:29PM
* Mentions a study that concludes people can't distinguish gay and straight men by appearance, then says he intuitively knows there are differences anyway.
* Entertains ludicrous claims: "If gay men are correct in their suspicion that male bisexuality exists, this second twin is probably gay." I can give an easy counterexample to this.
Elizabeth
is on page 79 of 249
Reading this popular book about autogynephilia precisely because I heard it was very controversial, in preparation for Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger. Patient stories are interesting. Not to autogynephilia yet, but the section on gender dysphoria "treatment" with coming out as trans assumed as a "bad outcome" is quite troubling.
— Jul 20, 2018 03:29PM
