Lawrence adds another piece to the puzzle of transactivist rage. She posits that autogynephilia’s inwardly directed nature, and the frustrations attendant on requiring others to validate your cross-sex identity, mean that the condition co-occurs with narcissistic disorders more often than would happen by chance. And narcissists often respond to minor slights with disproportionate rage. It is not hard to find evidence of ‘narcissistic personality traits, including a sense of entitlement, grandiosity, and lack of empathy’ in the attacks on Bailey, she writes in a 2008 paper entitled ‘Shame and
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