ABSTRACT
Gender dysphoria, or "psychosexual inversion," so characterized by Benjamin (1966), is a distinct and separate entity from any other psychological sexual disorder. It is irreversible, lasting and immutable. To think otherwise would be denying the facts as they are known, and until scientific research and discovery determines that the mind's gender can, indeed, be changed by predictable and reproducible means—something never accomplished throughout human history—the problem must be dealt with surgically in selected cases (Edgerton, 1973,1983).
