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born 1957 United States

John Michael Bailey (born 2 July 1957) is an American psychologist, behavioural geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation. He maintains the position that sexual orientation is heavily influenced by biology and male homosexuality is most likely inborn.

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Homosexuality might be the most striking unresolved paradox of human evolution.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

Once you've learned about autogynephilic and homosexual transsexuals and seen several of each, distinguishing them is easy.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

The current popular literature about transsexualism is noteworthy for its ignorance of the distinction between autogynephilic and homosexual transsexuals.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

In order for a feminine boy to become transsexual, something extra must happen. What is the something extra?

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

Autogynephilic transsexuals are not "women in men's bodies" (Anne Lawrence, a physician and sex researcher who is herself a postoperative transsexual, has called them "men trapped in men's bodies").

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

...femininity in boys and homosexuality in men are probably caused by incomplete masculinization of the brain during sexual differentiation.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

To me, cases like that really scream out, ‘Hey, it’s not out there. It’s in here.’ There’s no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

The two types of transsexuals who begin life as males are called homosexual and autogynephilic ... homosexual transsexuals are extremely feminine gay men, and autogynephilic transsexuals are men erotically obsessed with the image of themselves as women.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

The bad trend is that scientists and laypeople both think that there is something more impressive about biological markers—a trait that one can measure with a ruler or a blood test or complicated electronic equipment (I'm serious, there is no better definition of “biological marker”)—than there is about psychological or behavioral markers. This is a mistake.

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

Another environmental hypothesis that has received some enthusiasm on the political right is the idea that gay people seduce and recruit. I have never understood how this is plausible. A boy with no interest in homosexual activity wouldn't find it pleasant even if he agreed to it. How is this supposed to turn him gay?

The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. Michael Bailey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.