Anne Lawrence

Anne Alexandra Lawrence (born November 17, 1950) is an American psychologist, sexologist, and physician. She has published extensively on gender dysphoria, transgender people, and paraphilias.

Lawrence is a transgender woman and self-identifies as autogynephilic. Her 2013 book on autogynephilia, ''Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism'', has been regarded by Ray Blanchard, who developed Blanchard's transsexualism typology, 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. Blanchard's typology and autogynephilia are highly controversial subjects and are not accepted by many transgender women and academics. Lawrence's work also extends beyond Blanchard's typology to transgender women and to gender transition more generally. Provided by Wikipedia