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Reading Mike: The Annotated Bailey: Chapter 8, page 145
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One way that the standard transsexual story
is wrong is in its singularity. Two types of men change their sex. To anyone
who examines them closely, they are quite dissimilar, in their histories,
their motivations, their degree of femininity, their demographics, and even
the way they look. We know little about the causes of either type of transsexualism
(though we have some good hunches about one type). But I am certain that
when we finally do understand, the causes of the two types will be completely
different.
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To anyone who has seen members of both types
and who has learned to ask the right kinds of questions, it is easy to tell
them apart. Yet the difference has eluded virtually everyone who cares about
transsexuals: talk show hosts, journalists, most people who evaluate and
treat them, and even most academics who have studied them. One reason is
that the superficial similarity of the two types is so striking—both
are men, usually dressed and attempting to act like women, who
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