What is Blanchards “two types of transsexuals” theory?
The theory encompasses several ideas. Here are some of the main ones: a. There are two different aspects to gender dysphoria: discomfort with one’s sex of birth, and yearning to be the other sex. The first aspect is more striking in very feminine homosexual males who want to be women (perhaps because many of them seem incapable of sounding or acting like typical males even when they try to do so). The second aspect is more striking in males with a condition called “autogynephilia.” Autogynephilia is sexual attraction to, and love of, the idea of oneself as a woman. b. Neither discomfort with one’s sex nor yearning to be the other sex is an all-or-nothing thing. Each is continuous; many genetic males feel no gender dysphoria, some have a little dysphoria (of one type or another), some have enough gender dysphoria so that they go through steps to change their sex. The intermediates on the first (homosexual) dimension include (in order) masculine gay men, feminine gay men, and drag queens
