*＊✿❀ Rosey Bloom ❀✿＊*

I produced this mini-essay for the sex and gender chapter in my first-year psychology class, and I have replicated it here for future reading: In Western culture, we actually tend to associate whether someone is masculine or feminine with their biology more than Eastern cultures do. In the East, its often more about sexual and social behavior. In many East Asian cultures, feminine homosexual men are considered to be women in male bodies. This has a remarkable impact on how LGBT identity is presented and embodied cross-culturally. Egalitarian homosexuality (two masculine men or two feminine women in gay relationships) is almost exclusively a Western construction in individualist nations (Rosenmann & Safir, 2008). Eastern homosexuality tends to be expressed in a transgender way (feminine gay men living in a third-gender role or getting sex reassignment surgery to become heterosexual women), and heterosexual transsexuality (heterosexual men receiving sex reassignment surgery to becom...

Narratives of autogynephilic trans identity, by Rosey Bloom, 2023: I am producing these writings in response to the claims by some members of my own transgender community that the concepts presented by Blanchard (1989) are not scientifically valid, that they are “debunked”, or that autogynephilia “is not real”. I should preface: I am of the view that autogynephilia is a sexual orientation, something the individual who has it cannot help, it can lead to cross-sex gender identity, gender dysphoria, and autogynephiles can benefit from gender transition and lead happier lives that way. I am not a gender-critical, I am not a supporter of the “fetish” view of autogynephilia. I have collected quotes from ten different trans women who describe autogynephilia or similar symptoms (although some give explanatory alternative beliefs for the symptoms), I will analyze them in the following essay.      Before we begin, I will give a brief description of my own experience: As of to...