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Peter Collins on transsexualism

  

Peter Ian Collins (born 1955) is a Canadian forensic psychiatrist. He works at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), a Toronto mental institution charged with serving gender-variant clients in the area. It has become widely known as one of the most notorious facilities in the world in terms of controlling access to medical services.

With Ray Blanchard, Collins coined the term “gynandromorphophilia” to describe attraction to transgnder people (specifically to trans women who have not had vaginoplasty). He is one of the few people who has ever used the term “she-male” in an academic paper to describe trans women as a demographic group.

Psychiatrist Vernon Rosario has called labels like these “scientifically reifying” when applied to trans women and their admirers.

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Peter Collins on transsexualism
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/peter-collins.html


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Posted by Andrea James on 11/08 at 01:39 PM

Autodemarcophilia

Those who get a frisson shooting through their nether regions when delineating others in ever more refined categories that exclude them from the whole of humanity in ways that stigmatize and pathologize them.

In more extreme cases they bring this obsession into their professional lives and attempt to validate their disease through a thin veneer of respectability.

Prognosis is guarded.

Posted by  on  11/09  at  11:23 AM

another guy with a beard at CAMH!  Is that to prove he’s really a macho caveman kind of guy?
Or a ‘uniform’ to separate him from all those trannies!
Or is it the sign of respectability?

Posted by  on  11/10  at  12:00 AM

Fluer - could be.

Though it might just be a form of displacement - it gives them something to stroke meaningfuly while examining “sexual deviants”.

Posted by  on  11/10  at  09:38 AM
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