“Autogynephilia has long been conceptualized as a sexual orientation...but its advocates, myself among them, have not
sufficiently emphasized this point. We should arguably use every opportunity to do
so. Autogynephilia, we should explain, is another variety of sexual orientation: It is
an unusual variant form of heterosexuality. Like other sexual orientations, it is
something we autogynephilic transsexuals did not choose and something we cannot
change. It certainly determines what we lust after, but it also determines what we
love and want to unite with. And we autogynephilic transsexuals understandably
feel strong pressure to express and act on our autogynephilic sexual orientations.”