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

— J. Michael Bailey The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)

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

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

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

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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").

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

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