Although I haven't seen a thread talking about autogynephilia here in a while, it's pleasant to see Julia Serano drive yet another stake into this thing's heart so that hopefully it doesn't come back to its unholy life.
http://juliaserano.blogspot.ca/2015/...a-deniers.html
Some takeaway points:
1. Blanchard's data has always sucked, and never really supported his claims.
2. Sexual arousal while imagining one's image female, or otherwise fantasizing about being female just has nothing to do with whether or not someone will transition.
3. In fact, cisgender women frequently experience such fantasies too - they aren't a trans phenomenon at all.
Indeed, since a rather high percentage of women experience sexual arousals involving their own mental image of themselves as women, i.e. the same damned thing Blanchard says is the root cause of gender dysphoria for female attracted trans women, perhaps this is, ironically enough, further evidence that trans women are, in fact, just women!
I realize that some here identify with this theory - after all, many of us experienced sexual arousal in the manner Blanchard describes. The problem is that Blanchard's theory of Autogynephilia makes conclusions that simply aren't supported by any data - including that samples Blanchard himself gathered.