It is generally accepted within psychology and among trans health providers that transgender people who transition do so because they have a gender identity that is incongruent with their birth-assigned sex, and distinct from their sexual orientation. In contradiction to this standard model, the theory of autogynephilia posits that transgender women’s female gender identities and transitions are merely a by-product of their sexual orientations. While subsequent research has yielded numerous lines of evidence that, taken together, disprove the theory, autogynephilia is still often touted by anti-transgender groups, including trans-exclusionary feminists. Here, I provide an updated overview of the scientific case against autogynephilia. Following that, I will forward an alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model that explains all the available findings better than autogynephilia theory, and which is more consistent with contemporary thinking regarding gender and sexual diversity. I will also demonstrate how autogynephilia theory relies on essentialist, heteronormative, and male-centric presumptions about women and LGBTQ+ people, and as such, it is inconsistent with basic tenets of feminism.

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Autogynephilia：科学评论、女权主义分析和另类“化身幻想”模型

心理学和跨性别健康提供者普遍认为，跨性别者之所以会转变，是因为他们的性别认同与其出生性别不一致，并且与他们的性取向不同。与这个标准模型相反，自体癖理论认为跨性别女性的女性性别认同和转变仅仅是她们性取向的副产品。虽然随后的研究产生了大量证据，这些证据合起来反驳了这一理论，但自恋者仍然经常被反跨性别团体吹捧，包括跨性别女权主义者。在这里，我提供了针对自体癖的科学案例的最新概述。跟随那个，我将提出一个替代的“具身幻想”模型，它比自发性恋理论更好地解释了所有可用的发现，并且更符合当代关于性别和性多样性的思想。我还将展示自恋理论如何依赖于关于女性和 LGBTQ+ 人群的本质主义、异性恋和以男性为中心的假设，因此，它与女权主义的基本原则不一致。