ABSTRACT
Demographic information should be the first to be examined to see if there is an equal or near-equal representation of the sexes on each variable. Failure to do so might lead us to attribute to sex what in reality is an effect of an unobserved co-variant of sex. Once this matter is attended to, male and female accounts of the period of change, their statements of what they believe and what they value, and their representations of the Catholic Church can be inspected for the occurrence of sex differences. Those that appear can subsequently be compared with findings from psychological research on sex differences. Female Outs appear to have entered upon a critical period of change later in life than male Outs. Fourteen of the females, as compared with twenty-one of the males, reported that their re-evaluation began before or during college, whereas eleven females and only four males said it did not begin until after college.
