Help Phil Illy Write A Paper And Start A Business

Hi, my name is Phil Illy. I need help to continue my gender work and put it on solid financial grounding. I'm asking for help to accomplish two things:

1. Start a gender consulting business

2. Write a peer-reviewed paper about female autoandrophilia so that the existence of this orientation is taken more seriously

My foray into the world of gender science began back in 2019 when I found out that I had a sexual orientation called autogynephilia (sexual attraction to being a woman). In essence, part of my heterosexuality was directed inward, resulting in a sexual and romantic desire for feminine embodiment. At first I wasn't sure if the concept of autogynephilia applied to me, but looking more deeply into the science convinced me that this was the ultimate cause of not only my gender dysphoria, but was also the most common cause of gender dysphoria in males as whole.

It bothered me that knowledge which could help me understand myself had been kept from me. I wondered: why hadn't I been told about this before? If this sexual orientation was the most common cause of gender dysphoria in males, why wasn't this common knowledge? Why were millions of people being left in the dark about the source of their suffering? Why were they getting irreversible medical interventions without knowing the ultimate reason why they wanted them in the first place?

I decided to write a book for a lay audience that could help others like me understand ourselves better. I wanted to help my kind not only dispel shame and confusion, but also have the knowledge needed to give truly informed consent for gender-related medical interventions. In the months since Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex came out, I've been raising awareness of this sexual orientation by building an online following and appearing on podcasts. I was even fortunate enough to attend a private sexology conference where I got to meet many of the sexologists whose work I've admired.

More famously, I recently attended a gender conference in my typical garb and set off a controversy for the crime of wearing a dress while being an uncloseted autogynephilic male. The uproar over something so minor shows that there's still a long way to go before people understand autogynephilia.

In order for me to sustainably continue doing this gender work, I need a reliable, cancellation-proof source of income. To accomplish this, I plan on setting up shop as a gender consultant to help people from the following groups understand themselves or those they care about:

1. Autoheterosexuals themselves

2. Spouses of autoheterosexuals

3. Gender clinicians with autoheterosexual clients

Altogether, millions of people fall into one of these groups, so I expect it won't be hard to find enough clients. However, I've been running on fumes and savings and there are plenty of little expenses that add up when starting a business that I currently can't afford. Although consulting via teleconferencing is fairly lean in terms of startup costs, there are nonetheless still plenty of miscellaneous expenses such as software, website hosting, insurance, and others. The total sum of money I'm asking for also takes into consideration another important task I must accomplish as part of my gender work:

While getting this gender consulting business going, I need to cover living expenses in order to write an academic paper for peer-review which presents various indicators that females can have an analogous orientation called autoandrophilia (sexual attraction to being a man). If I'm right that females can be autoandrophilic, there are also females who feel unnecessary confusion around their gender feelings stemming from autosexuality. They too would benefit from understanding their situation before undergoing irreversible medical interventions. This paper on female autosexuality will appear in a special issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, and will hopefully implore researchers to conduct studies investigating female autoandrophilia (which very well could be a missing piece of the puzzle for understanding the recent surge in FTM transition).

I expect that the amount of money I'm requesting is just enough to pull all this off. I really hate asking for money, so I'm asking for the minimum amount that could allow me to accomplish these twin aims of starting a gender consultancy and publishing a peer-reviewed paper on female autosexuality.

If you fund me beyond the stated goal, I will gladly accept your help, as it would further strengthen my ability to spread important knowledge about autoheterosexuality.