Transsexual study reveals genetic link › News in Science (ABC Science):
“The discovery of a genetic variation in male to female transsexuals adds weight to the view that transsexualism has a biological basis, the Australian researchers behind the find say.
Their study shows male to female transsexuals are more likely than non-transsexual males to have a longer version of a receptor gene for the sex hormone androgen or testosterone.
The findings from the largest-yet genetic study of male to female transsexualism are published online today in Biological Psychiatry.”
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Great article.
Mental scientists have gone through many thoughts, some were disasters.
None of this is new.
My transition was during the 1970s. I had to fight with ‘gatekeeper’ counsellors back then about the legitimacy of my circumstance as was identified in this article.
– Some counsellors insisted that I must conform to that family failure model.
– Others insisted that they would only work with homosexual males; those counsellors’ school of thought concluded that effeminate homosexual males were transsexual.
– One of my counsellors during the 1990s insisted that I could not possibly be Lesbian – that I was supposed to have the operation to have male partners, not female partners.
These issues were what drove my own personal endeavour to seek a physician who would determine whether I am inter-sex; my doctor reported to me that I am female by way of inter-sex, yet I still faced a counsellor there at the hospital who insisted that I should not transition to female.
Yep, anatomy and physiology is an easier determinant that the vague effort of psychotherapy that is continually searching for a new definition.
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