Сегодня связалась наконец-то Реем. Написала ему коммент на его интервью Бланчарда, он лайкнул.
Вот что я ему написала.
Thanks for the interview and your work, Ray, although I don't agree with you (and I have a good personal reason for it), but it is a different topic. Also it is interesting that we have divergent understanding of agp. I started with clinical\"rational" approach, but I finished with poststructuralist\postmodernist approach. We are opposites in this regard, I see that you are disappointed by the vagueness of trans and queer studies and you try to find solid truth of sexuality and gender. I feel you. I respect your path and approach but I consciously abandoned it due to different reasons (ethical, clinical, tough personal history which was related to the conversion therapy and Russian\Soviet psychiatry, also I don't see how adherence to the "solid truth" helps people, we can't ignore in the field of clinical psychiatry and sexology ethical implications of different theories)
Also it would be interesting to ask Dr.Blanchard the question about cognitive and neurobiological processes which can be a foundation of the agp. James Cantor claims that agp is related to the mirror neurons activity, that somehow brain subsystem related to sexuality is intertwined with the brain subsystem which is responsible for imitation. The similar process happens in the pedophilic brain, but different subsystem is involved (nurture subsystem can be mixed with sexual subsystem). Also it is important to study cognitive processes which are the part of heterosexuality. Ho do heterosexual men identify sexual target? How do they process heterosexual signals? What are the subprocesses of this process? After that it will be easy to understand what happens with agp. It is a big job for cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, but I am pessimistic that we will find solid absolute truth of sexuality.
Also it is paramount to study what is the best way of action in the clinical practice. What kind of people with agp do benefit from transition? By the way, I am asexual (agp etiology) trans woman, and I wasn't influenced by the permissive culture at all, I was born in Russia which is not trans friendly at ll, Nevertheless transition saved my life.