ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to compare one class—the extreme form of transsexualism that the three little boys and the adult transsexuals described represent—with another class: all males who want sex-transformation procedures, but who are less totally feminine. A single case certainly cannot be used convincingly as a control unless one has assurance that the single case represents a whole class. On the other hand, if a male requesting sex transformation is less totally feminine, his parents will not fit the described picture. Some psychiatrists might maintain that effeminate boys and tomboyish girls, who are familiar enough, are essentially the same in their gender identities as the transsexual children being described in this work and yet have very different parents and infancies.
