This was always an odd choice, since she even admitted that Vasey didn't use the term, but insisted that " androphilia " ( love of men ) means the same thing as " homosexual transsexual " ( it doesn't; a straight woman is androphilic ).
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However, I take the opportunity to put on record that I consider an androphilic transwoman ( ie one sexually attracted to men ) to be heterosexual because of her attraction to a member of another gender and a gynephilic transwoman ( ie one attracted to women ) as homosexual because she has a same-gender preference.
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Psychobiologist James D . Weinrich has described this split among psychologists : " The mf transsexuals who are attracted to men ( whom some call'homosexual'and others call'androphilic') are in the lower left-hand corner of the XY table, in order to line them up with the ordinary homosexual ( androphilic ) men in the lower right.
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Psychobiologist James D . Weinrich has described this split among psychologists : " The mf transsexuals who are attracted to men ( whom some call'homosexual'and others call'androphilic') are in the lower left-hand corner of the XY table, in order to line them up with the ordinary homosexual ( androphilic ) men in the lower right.
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Serano criticised proponents of the theory, claiming that they dismiss non-autogynephilic, non-androphilic transsexuals as misreporting or lying while not questioning androphilic transsexuals, describing it as " tantamount to hand-picking which evidence counts and which does not based upon how well it conforms to the model ", either making the theory unscientific due to its unfalsifiability, or invalid due to the nondeterministic correlation that later studies found.
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Serano criticised proponents of the theory, claiming that they dismiss non-autogynephilic, non-androphilic transsexuals as misreporting or lying while not questioning androphilic transsexuals, describing it as " tantamount to hand-picking which evidence counts and which does not based upon how well it conforms to the model ", either making the theory unscientific due to its unfalsifiability, or invalid due to the nondeterministic correlation that later studies found.
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Studies in 2004 ( Swaab ), 2006 ( Gooran ), 2008 ( Garcia-Falgueras ), and 2010 ( Rametti ) confirmed earlier research finding that gender identity is influenced by brain structure . ( Brain structure differences have also been noted between gay and heterosexual men, and lesbian and heterosexual women as part of extensive research on biology and sexual orientation . ) Studies have also found that both androphilic and gynephilic trans women's brain function and responses are like cis women's and unlike cis men's, or are intermediate between the two.
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Since homosexual, gay, and lesbian are often associated with bigotry and exclusion in many societies, the emphasis on sexual affiliation is both appropriate and socially just . " Author Helen Boyd agrees, writing, " It would be much more accurate to define sexual orientation as either " androphilic " ( loving men ) and " gynephilic " ( loving women ) instead . " Sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young challenges researchers like Simon LeVay, J . Michael Bailey, and Martin Lalumiere, who she says " have completely failed to appreciate the implications of alternative ways of framing sexual orientation ."
