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Why is AGP transphobic? Seems like at best it's still unsettled science. From the link:
"Unsettled science" is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:
You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on "Transfeminist critique", "Transgender men", and "Societal impact." I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3
Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven't had a sexual thought in their lives.
Follow up thought after dinner: AGP is also auto-misandry and a strong example of toxic masculinity.
For those not familiar with the term, it's the idea that all trans men are only trans men because they think themselves sexually appealing as women. Which is fairly strongly disproven by "cis women feel that way, too", but also exposes a wretched opinion about cis men.
We're SUPPOSED to think that we're sexually attractive. If we want to get laid that means we need to find someone who finds us attractive, and that's damn hard when we can't even think of ourselves as sexy.