autogynephile

English

Noun

autogynephile (plural autogynephiles)

  1. A person who exhibits autogynephilia.
    • 2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen
      Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)
    • 2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism (page 179)
      Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. [] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.
    • 2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation
      First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.
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