ClairFlourish, you have completely misrepresented my personal position. I support the right of gynephilic transwomen to seek those medical services that they need to reduce their gender dysphoria. When I about this topic on my blog I am writing about what is now well established by the science. As to the brain research, that too is complicated.. in that androphilic transfolk show SHIFTS toward female brain morphologies. But if you had read my blog in its entirety you will note that I agree with Cordelia fine that sexually dimorphic structures do NOT mean differences in one's MIND. What we do know is that sexually dimorphic structures correlate with sexual orientation and certain sexually dimorphic behaviors around reproduction and EARLY child rearing. (As a child grows older, both parents have very similar behaviors... something rarely found in primates save for humans, lemurs, and maqacques.) My reasons for writing about the science is both a personal interest in the subject and a political one... given that there really ARE two types (as has been VERY well documented and known for decades) of transwomen, one of them is politically overshadowed by the other, voices silenced or even replaced by the other:
transkids.us (note, while I am now keeping this website on the internet... I didn't initiate it... but I was asked to write for it several years later... I began writing my blog at the specific request of the others... because I knew the science and the history.
As to whether non-transfolk find one type verses the other as more acceptable... it has been my experience that because hardly anyone knows the difference anyways that it hasn't made a difference to the public at large. However, on a personal basis... I've found that many AGPs rub lesbians the wrong way... but except for notable transphobic lesbians on the internet, I personally get along famously with them. Did I mention that today was a long day? That was because I traveled from my home in California's wine country down to Silicon Valley to conduct due dilligence for a Venture Capital fund that focusses on women led companies. I interviewed a woman CEO of a high tech company today... at the behest of the senior partner of the VC fund who is herself a lesbian feminist... and yes, she and I have been friends for 15 years at least and though we've never had much discussions about it (not that important when one is running a business of making money!) she does know of my medical history.
Apologies to everyone else...
I didn't intend this to be a thread hijack... but did feel compelled to answer these scurrilous charges.