Malice

If you doubted whether there was any malice within the Blanchard movement, the title and the cover of J Michael Bailey's book would remove all doubt. 

The image on the front of the 2003 screed "The Man who Would Be Queen" showed a pair of hairy legs nested inside women's pumps while the contents presented a kind of "Blanchard for Dummies" summation of the work started by the duo of Freund and Blanchard in the early 80's. It added to the existing literary defense of Blanchard's ideas by Anne Lawrence whose book "Men Trapped in Men's Bodies" explained how a fetish (AGP) was primarily responsible for her transition (something only she knows for sure).

I've read both books front to back.

Bailey's tone was decidedly salacious, simplistic and most of all unscientific. It basically made fun of people whose lives had been made duly complicated thanks to a society that refused to understand or have much sympathy. Transitioned people like the brilliant Lynn Conway weren't having it and wrote about it on their websites. 

Things have improved in numerous ways and gotten worse in others since the early 2000's but there is no doubt that malice was part of the playbook which contrasted sharply with the clinicians who had worked in this area for years. Blanchard took a different route to Germans Magnus Herschfeld who began at the turn of the 20th century and Harry Benjamin who died in 1986 just in time to miss all the toxicity. 

Blanchard and Bailey still turn up on gender critical podcasts like used car salesmen but the world has moved past them. They will remain part of the historical record but not much more.