autogynephile

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UK/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/US/ˌɔ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/cot caught merger/ˌɑ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

noun

A person who exhibits autogynephilia.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounautogynephile (plural autogynephiles)

plural autogynephiles

  1. A person who exhibits autogynephilia.

    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.)

    2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen
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    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, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179

    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.

    2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation

    Much like the average Kiwi Farms user is a far bigger lolcow than most of the lolcows that they obsessively a-log, the average Kiwi Farms user is also a much more depraved sexual deviant than even the average autogynephile tranny (which is REALLY saying something).

    2025 July 5, Joshua Goldberg, “Sir, Another Pedophilia Scandal Has Hit Kiwi Farms”, in The Goldberg Variations, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025

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APA

autogynephile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autogynephile

MLA

“autogynephile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autogynephile. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autogynephile,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autogynephile.

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