I wonder what Blanchard would think of me. I suspect he would immediately pigeonhole me as an autogynephylic trans woman and not authentic. I led a heteronormative existence. Now that I have mostly transitioned, I still like women but my desires are changing. I now find that I want a man to make love to me., But not a gay man, a heterosexual man is what I want. My endocrinologist tells me that this desire is likely to strengthen over time to the point where my sexuality may completely change. It of course suggests that sexual preference is influenced by hormones and not entirely within the brain. But that is a subject for discussion at a different time. The bottom line is that from my experience, Blanchard could not be more wrong and his erroneous conclusions are only destructive to understanding trans individuals.