Trans-Sexualization
1 Lori B. Girshick, Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002); Lorraine Gamman and Merja Makinen, Female Fetishism (New York: New York University Press, 1995); Ruth Papazian, “Women and Boys—Sexual Assault or Initiation? The Law Says Rape, but Americans Are Ambivalent,” APB News.com, March 30, 2000 (http://members.iquest.net/~dkoons/news.html). 3 Based on movies that I have personally seen, combined with those that I found during a brief Internet search for movies that supposedly depict trans women as prostitutes or strippers, I have compiled the following list of films that reportedly include MTF spectrum sex workers: 40 Year Old Virgin, All About My Mother, American Heart, Angel, Anger Management, Boys from Brazil, Breath of Life (Sopla de Vida), Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, Change My Life (Change Moi Ma Vie), Cop Target, Cruising, Dude Where’s My Car?, Fleshpot on 42nd Street, Gangs of New York, Got Papers, Heaven, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Hollywood Homicide, Love in Concrete (Amor en Concreto), Mercy, Never Again, Night on Earth, The Night Stalker, The Pharmacist (Le Pharmacien de Garde), Place Without Limits, Q & A, Risky Business, Saint Jack, Surrender, The Way You Want Me (Come Mi Vuoi), Wild Side, Yup Yup Man. Not only is this list not comprehensive, but it does not include any of the TV dramas or daytime talk shows that depict trans female sex workers. 4 Woodward, “Transjobless.” 5 Gamman and Makinen, Female Fetishism, 51-84. 6 For examples, see Ray Blanchard, “The Classification and Labeling of Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphorias,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 18, no. 4 (1989), 315-334; and Stoller, Presentations of Gender. This tendency is also reviewed in Lev, Transgender Emergence, 133-143. 7
DSM-IV-TR, 574-575; Wilson, “The Disparate Classification of Gender.” 8 Lev, Transgender Emergence, 133-139; Helen Boyd, My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003), 115-148. 9 Ray Blanchard, “The Concept of Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male Gender Dysphoria,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177, no. 10 (1989), 616-623; Blanchard, “The Classification and Labeling of Nonhomosexual Gender Dysphorias.” 10 Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen; DSM-IV-TR, 578. For scientific and psychological critiques of autogynephilia, see Joan Roughgarden, “The Bailey Affair: Psychology Perverted,” February 11, 2004 (http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Reviews/Psychology/); Katherine K. Wilson, “Autogynephilia: New Medical Thinking or Old Stereotype?” Transgender Forum Magazine, April 16, 2000; Madeline H. Wyndzen, “Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Autogynephilia (But Were Afraid You Had to Ask),” Psychology of Gender Identity and Transgenderism,
www.genderpsychology.org/autogynephilia (2004). 11 Blanchard, “The Concept of Autogynephilia,” 617. 12 Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen, 146. 13 Blanchard, “The Concept of Autogynephilia,” 616. 16 Bolin, In Search of Eve, 75-76; Lev, Transgender Emergence, 133-139; Boyd, My Husband Betty, 132-140. 17 Blanchard, “The Concept of Autogynephilia”; Ray Blanchard, “Varieties of Autogynephilia and Their Relationship to Gender Dysphoria,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 22, no. 3 (1993), 241-251. For more on this, see Wyndzen, “Everything You Never Wanted to Know,” and Anne A. Lawrence, “Sexuality and Transsexuality: A New Introduction to Autogynephilia,” Transsexual Women’s Resources,
www.annelawrence.com/newintroagp.html.