What motivates Ray Blanchard's oppression of sex and gender minorities?
Andrea James
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard-motivations.htmlRay Blanchard at Toronto's notorious Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has accused me of spreading "misinformation" about him (Blanchard 2009), so let's get all his biographical details out on the table in order to make my point more clearly.
As I mentioned in the earlier article (James 2009), Blanchard is widely reviled by transsexual people. He once declared that a trans woman who has transitioned is merely "a man without a penis," and said of trans men, "They get a kind of lump that in the best, most expensive, $100,000 cases, kind of, maybe, look like a penis from across a room." (Armstrong 2004). His comments on trans people's genitalia echoes his fixation on "phallometrics," the measurement of penile length, width, and tumescence when subjects are exposed to erotic stimuli. The field of "phallometrics" was developed by Blanchard's mentor at CAMH to determine if army recruits were gay or not. Blanchard, who has not disclosed his own sexual orientation publicly, is considered an expert in determining the size and tumescence of male genitalia.
