Re: Coming out of the Crossdresser's closet

In reference to my earlier question 

>> Does that mean you are unfamiliar with the work of Gooren, Swaab et al
>> or that you consider it less than convincing?

Gene replied

>Please use a quote or a reference.

which is answer enough.

Should you wish to further your knowledge in this area, you might
start with Zhou, Hofman, Gooren and Swaab's "A Sex Difference in the
Human Brain and its relation to Transexuality" - Nature, 2 November
'95, vol 378: 6552, pp 68-70.  This subject has been developed
subsequently elsewhere.  

Other research, mainly in the US, on the effect on offspring of
abnormal hormone levels in the mother during gestation may also be
found pertinent.  In these cases, I believe the subjects were rats and
mice but the behaviour patterns were quite interesting.

Such research may be of interest to those studying the condition and I
do hope it will lead to a better understanding in time.  To those of
us who live with it however, all that really matters is making the
best of our situation in the face of a bi-polar society that finds the
concept of gender abnormality so difficult to accommodate within its
model of life as presently constructed.

Julia