What is Gynandromorphophilia?
The official definition is: Those of male genitalia who are sexually attracted to transgender women, but common beliefs have much to add. The ready-made remark speaks of repressed homosexuals who, refusing to have relationships with other men for fear of being outed, hypocritically take shelter in the arms and legs of transwomen.
Although this theory seems obvious to most, there are two major problems: it feels strongly transphobic and it is simply not true. Let’s start from the latter using the Hsu-Rosenthal-Miller-Bailey’s study published in the medical journal Psychological Medicine and titled “Who are the gynandromorphophilic ?”
The scientists recruited males who were looking for sex on the internet with other men, cisgender women (females whose gender identity match the sex assigned at birth), and transsexual women (females whose sex assigned at birth was male but identify psychologically and emotionally as women). The candidates had to declare their level of excitement toward other men, cisgender and transgender women. Then they had to watch pornographic movies in which men, cisgender or trans-women were having sex, while a machine measured the swelling of their penis.
The first thing the study demonstrated was that everyone’s arousal patterns matched the type declared in the initial phase, eliminating the “I say one thing but another” factor. In fact, homosexual’s arousal patterns were very high when watching men to men sex, on average when watching trans-women, and with no activity when watching women only sex. Obviously, things went exactly the opposite with heterosexuals who said to not be attracted to transwomen.
What about the gynandromorphophilic test subjects? Their arousal ran high when watching transgender women sex, while their attraction towards cisgender women was equal to that of heterosexuals, and toward men was very low, only slightly higher to that of heterosexuals. In short, the definition of gynandromorphophilia is the more appropriate: men sexually attracted by transgender women. That is all. They are not repressed homosexuals. They can also be bisexual, but only in some cases.
However, to prove the existence of a prejudice is not enough. We must unearth the root cause, find out what it tells about us, our community, and our society. We must recognize that describing an attraction towards transsexual women as homosexuality means to impose a binary system in which only cisgender men and women can feel and provoke arousal. A system that radically denies of transgender women gender identity and limits them to be surrogates.
Transwomen are disowned not only as women and as humans, but also as desirable people as some claim that one can’t be really attracted to them but rather used to satisfy the attraction toward someone else. Transgender women are diminished to a penis to which, almost by accident, have sprouted boobs. it is a very transphobic way of (not) thinking that is unknowingly rehashed by many homosexuals and even by some transexuals. Isn’t it disturbing?
As for final thoughts, there are a couple of observations. The first one is discouraging: the study on gynandromorphophilia indirectly demonstrates how often the attraction towards transsexual FTM (female to male) – or perhaps their very existence – is not even contemplated by our society. The second one is a proposal: since the term gynandromorphophilia really sounds terrifying, like it was a disease – while we are simply speaking about a person who likes another – can we think of a more poised word?
It's so encouraging to see science begin to validate why sissies like me are so fundamentally attracted to Trans Women and Shecock, and at the same time feel a complete visceral rejection towards males altogether. Viva La Shecock!
Devina
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