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Tamara Roberson and transgender people

Tamara Roberson is an American software engineer and “autogynephilia” activist. Roberson is a key figure in the transkids.us hoax website and identifies as a “gender critical” Christian trans person. As with many “autogynephilia” activists, Roberson believes others have that disease, but Roberson does not identify as an “autogynephile.”

Background

Tamara Zoe Roberson was born November 16, 1984. Roberson attended Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, then attended Western Washington University in Bellingham from 2003 to 2005. Roberson earned an associate’s degree from Everett Community College in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University in 2022. Roberson worked at Target and Walmart for about ten years before taking a role as a software engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) in 2022.

Roberson has maintained an extensive trolling online presence since the 1990s. Usernames include:

  • Justanormalgirl
  • TGirlZoe
  • Foxxygirltamara
  • TamaraZRoberson

Roberson became a religious conservative later in life.

“Autogynephilia” activism

“Autogynephilia” (“AGP”) is a sex-fueled mental illness created by Ray Blanchard in 1989. Blanchard defines it as “a man’s paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman.” Support for this disease model of gender diversity is almost nonexistent, limited to a small group of conservative activists and supporters. 

“Autogynephilia” as a taxonomy appeals to a very specific type of person: neurodiverse, fixated on collecting and categorizing, socially isolated/eccentric, rigid thinking. “Autogynephilia” appeals to Roberson, who claims to be the other type in the two-type taxonomy: “homosexual transsexual,” or “HSTS.” To that end, Roberson supported the trolling efforts of Denise Magner, creator of the transkids.us hoax site. All of the people involved in that project identify as “HSTS” but would be categorized by Blanchard as “AGP.”

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