My physics teacher just announced he’s transgender.

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[–]shveya 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Seems like there's a lot of physics teachers with autogynophilia for some reason. IT guys too.

[–]uwubunny 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Autism spectrum. This is a reach, but maybe inability to understand the feelings of other people makes you more likely to try to turn yourself into your own girlfriend.

[–]shveya 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't even think that's a reach, it does seem like a lot of them are on the spectrum.

[–]Lyssa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Autism is not really "not understanding feelings of other people" as in lacking empathy/being sociopathic. What autistic people don't get (or don't get without learning it like a foreign language and paying deliberate attention, while still getting it wrong more often then neurotyicals) is non-verbal interactions and social standards/conventions. Autistic people have a perfectly normal capacity for emotional empathy, their cognitive empathy is underdeveloped, however.

Being an asshole does not make somebody autistic and neither does being autistic cause somebody to be an asshole (occasionally rude, yes, that is true).

Autism does seem to increase the likelihood of both asexuality and paraphilias however (or at least both are included in questionnaires developed by researchers in the field).

[–]uwubunny 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Without an understanding of the neurological mechanisms we can only speculate, but consider these facts:

  1. Autism involves difficulties in forming relationships with or understanding other people
  2. Autogynephilia involves forming a pseudo-relationship, with a fictitious female persona which you yourself try to embody
  3. Transgenders are a lot more likely to be autistic

This suggests to me at least that the same basic pathway might be disrupted in both these conditions.

[–]Lyssa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Autism involves difficulties in forming relationships with or understanding other people

That is true of a great number of different conditions.

A leading characteristic of autistics is also their intense introversion. Does this sound like the majority of TRAs/autogynophiles? True, autistics are more comfortable with "online extraversion" but the overwhelming majority prefers text based interactions. And they are generally very stingy with insencere compliments. Very much unlike the TRA echochamber.

I really think autistics are far more likely to end up as transitioned as minors plain old gender non-conforming confused kids (in other words victims of the cult) than the autogynophilic TRA cult leaders.

[–]BarleySammich 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Philosophers” too.

[–]shveya 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, like Nick Wynn.