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Myths

Autogynephilictrans women aren’t real trans women.
Autogynephiliais not linked to gender dysphoria.
Autogynephiliahas been debunked.
Transfeminine identities in autogynephilic trans femmes are entirely sexual innature.
Cisgenderwomen experience autogynephilia.
Autogynephiliaisn’t a good reason to transition to living as non-binary or feminine.
Autogynephilia is flawed becauseit doesn’t explain trans men/masculine people.
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Myths

Autogynephilia is flawed becauseit doesn’t explain non-binary AMAB folk?
Autogynephilia is caused by atrans feminine identity.
Mainstream medical, psychiatric,and psychological organisations do not recognise autogynephilia?
Autogynephilia is caused bypornography use (e.g., sissy hypno porn).
Autogynephilia is caused bytrauma.
Autogynephilia doesn’t explainbisexual cross-dressers or trans women?
Most adolescent onsettransfeminine folk are not autogynephilic, and are only experiencing a socialcontagion.
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What We Know

Autogynephiliais one type of a broader class of erotic-target-identity-inversions i.e., eachoutward directed sexual orientation has a rare inward directed variant.
Autogynephiliaseems to be innate and fixed like all AMAB sexual orientations.
Autogynephilia,Feminine Gender Identities, and Gender Dysphoria are related but distinct psychological constructs.
Autogynephilia might be as commonas male homosexuality.
Most autogynephiles probably don’t transition and we don’t fully understand what differs between those who do and those who don’t transition.
Other identities that can be grow out of autogynephilia are 1. Cross-dresser, 2. Sissy, 3. Femboy, etc

Controversy

Why do some trans women denyautogynephilia?
Why do some trans women embraceautogynephilia?