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Final Cut: Autogynephilia
🕑 Added 2018-02-01 21:32:44 +0000 UTC Hi all!Here's the final version, at long last! Feel free to share far and wide.
Also, here's my pinned comment on my video, which explains why I decided to go ahead with this topic:
"I was initially reluctant to do a video on this topic in part because I worried that only a handful of trans women and TERFs would even care. It’s a video about the identity and sexuality of trans women, yes, but the debate around this topic touches on a lot of other issues that are of wide interest right now: political correctness, academic freedom, power, privilege, social justice, postmodernism. And I try to make connections to those debates in this video, so my hope is that even if you’re not trans you’ll still resonate with enough that it’ll be worth watching for 50 minutes."
My other motivations for covering this include that a few months ago I managed to get myself in a lot of trouble (well, the kind of trouble you get into on Twitter anyway) when I did an interview with a journalist who has defended Dreger (who defended Bailey). So I'd already gotten myself tangled in this controversy.
The video is so long in part because I knew that most people probably wouldn't be familiar with the details of the theory or with the history of the controversy surrounding it, so I had to fill in a lot of backstory.
Also, I haven't done a video about trans topics since I started my transition (and we're now coming up on 6 months) so I'm bursting with things to say on the subject, and in fact I have to constantly restrain myself in order to keep this channel from becoming primarily a trans issues channel.
Anyway, thanks SO MUCH to those of you who gave kind and useful feedback on the rough edit last night. I hope you enjoy the final product!
Much <3
Natalie
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Autogynephilia is like Freudian psychodynamic theories, not really science.
I vote very hard for a video talking about gender perception and the self in non-essentialist terms. Or just some reading recommendations if anyone's got any.
