We are unfortunately witnessing Money’s vision play out in real time, and it is becoming apparent that pornography is bound up with the notion of ‘transition’, though in ways that tend to vary between trans-identified women and trans-identified men.

For women, and young women especially, the trend of declaring a male or non-binary identity may be driven by a wish to escape female objectification. Several young women who have ‘detransitioned’, or ceased to identify as male, have pointed to the influence of pornography in their identity confusion.

For men, however, the impulse to declare a female identity is often a cover story for a desire to live out a sexual crossdressing and body-modification fetish full-time.

[One can debate the influence of porn on this trend, but not the fetish aspects of it. Drag is especially drenched in fetishization of perceptions of femininity, but so too are the manifestations of it among non-drag transgenders, such as Dylan Mulvaney’s absurd parody of “girlhood”. — Ed]