Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
AGP (the love of oneself as a woman) is a fetish, and transwomen transition because they have gender dysphoria. They are NOT fetishistic.
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I agree though that among fetish crossdressers particularly, AGP can be either autoerotic or with a male partner, if the CDer is not attracted to men in male mode. If you want to discuss AGP, I strongly recommend you do so in the CDer section.

If, however, you are in fact TS and you are using other means to approximate having a woman's body until you have gender reassignment surgery, then that's quite another thing. But honestly I think you should discuss this privately via PM with someone.
I was not aware of these strange theories and even less, of their tortuous history. My view is that it would be nice if people could be divided neatly into such clear categories, but they can't. On the other hand, I would like to think that someone in the learning stage, should be able to talk about what they are feeling, in all its raw phenomenological reality, without it "sicklied o'r by the pale cast of thought," first. But then as someone else said, I don't own this site.