The Magic of Gender Transformation Fantasies

A Gender Fluid Life has a personal and interesting role of gender transformation fantasies over at YouTube.

Erotic crossdreaming refers to sexual fantasies where a person is transformed into another gender or is playing the role of another gender. 

There are cis people who have such fantasies, in the sense that they find the switch fascinating, but are nevertheless anchored in the gender they were assigned at birth.

Transgender people who have not transitioned may also have such fantasies. They are, like cis people, sexual beings, and transformation fantasies let them explore the possibility of being their real gender. Since they often find it hard to establish a satisfying sex life living and presenting as their assigned gender, the very idea of a gender transformation becomes eroticized. Why wouldn't it? Becoming your real gender makes a matching sex life possible.

(Some refer to this as "autogynephilia" or a fetish or a "paraphilia". The autogynephilia theory has been thoroughly debunked by science, and it its explanation does not reflect the real lives of trans people.  Forget about it!)

A Gender Fluid Life has published a series of four videos discussing the role of transformation fantasies among gender variant people, which you can find here.

The Magic of Transformation (Part 1)

In the first video they  reflect upon the power and urgency most  trans folk have to transform. For one noted thinker in the trans community, the philosopher Felix Conrad, this is an imperative. In this video, they draw upon Felix's book "Transgender: Fact or Fetish - Reality or Delusion?." 

The Magic of Transformation (Part 2)

In the second video, they delve further into Felix Conrad's theory that we are imprinted with a "gender core" which is expressed through sexual fantasies.

Changing Sex–The Magic of Transformation (Part 3)

They reflect on whether male to female transformation appeal invariably involves the transformee actually changing sex. They make use of  Jack Morin's book"The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment." 

Transformations, Body Swapping & Shape Shifting–The Magic of Transformation (Part 4)

They offer a few thoughts on a helpful classification of transformation types proposed by Paridae over on the Crossdream Life forum. They also look at the spiritual and shamanistic aspects of gender transformation.

Gender Flexer or Part Time Woman? – The Magic of Transformation (Part 5)

See also:

• More than one third of non-transgender people have had crossgender dreams and fantasies
• Blanchard debunked: Surveys show that all kinds of people experience "autogynephilia"
• What the sexual fantasies of non-transgender people tell us about the dreams of those who are trans

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