Anne Lawrence
Anne Alexandra Lawrence (born November 17, 1950) is an American
psychologist,
sexologist, and
physician who has published extensively on
gender dysphoria,
transgender people, and
paraphilias. Lawrence is a
transgender woman and self-identifies as
autogynephilic. She is best known for her 2013 book on
autogynephilia, ''
Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism'', which has been regarded by
Ray Blanchard as the definitive text on the subject. Lawrence is one of the major researchers in the area of Blanchard's
etiological typology of transgender women and has been one of the most major proponents of the theory. While Blanchard's typology and autogynephilia are highly controversial subjects and are not accepted by many transgender women and academics, some, such as Lawrence, identify with autogynephilia. Lawrence's work also extends beyond Blanchard's typology, to transgender women and to
transition more generally.
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