Essays
- Autogynephilia as Thought Crime (2024) Is autogynephilia a thought crime? Transgender critical author Helen Joyce seems to think so. Here are my reactions to what she said in a recent interview.
- Autogynephilia at 35 (2024) This essay considers the current status and significance of the concept of autogynephilia, which was introduced 35 years ago in 1989.
- Ms. Z's Further Reflections: Body and Identity (2024) Ms. Z contributed a narrative to Men Trapped in Men's Bodies, published in 2013. Over a decade later she submitted this essay offering her further reflections.
- Ms. Z's First Reflections (2013) This narrative was originally published in Men Trapped in Men's Bodies in 2013. It is republished here to provide context for Ms. Z's further reflections.
- Becoming What We Love: Autogynephilic Sexual Orientation (2023) This brief, nonacademic introduction to autogynephilia summarizes the most important elements of my 2007 article.
- George Balanchine, the Choreographer Who Loved Women (2023) Balanchine's history of cross-dressing and his seeming disavowal of his maleness suggests an autogynephilic sexual orientation.