| Leslie Feinberg, "Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman", Beacon Press, June 1997 p3 |
| p3: | I tried to mesh two parallel worlds as a child, the one I saw with my own eyes and the one I was taught. For example, I witnessed powerful adult women in our working-class projects handling every challenge of life, while coping with too many kids and not enough money. Although I hated seeing them so beaten down by poverty, I loved their laughter and their strength. But on television I saw women depicted as foolish and not very bright. Every cultural message taught me that women were only capable of being wives, mothers, housekeepers, seen not heard. |
| p4: | My own gender expression felt quite natural. I liked my hair short and I felt most relaxed in sneakers, jeans and a t-shirt. |
| Richard Fagerstrom, Walter Futterweit, Richard Weiss, "Endocrine Evaluation of Forty Female-to-Male Transsexuals: Increased Frequency of Polycystic Ovarian Disease in Female Transsexualism", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15:1 1986, p. 69 |
| | Although only two patients were proven to have PCOD on a laparotomy prior to androgen treatment, three others had ultrasonographic evidence of enlarged multicystic ovaries. The nine patients with probable PCOD had hirsutism and/or oligomenorrhea associated with an increased LH/FSH ration and or evidence of hyperandrogenemia. |
| L. Lothstein, "Psychodynamics and Sociodynamics of Gender Dysphoric States", American Journal of Psychotherapy, 33:2 April 1979 |
| | Barbara is a 32-year-old, white biological female. During mid-adolescence B's mother became violently antihomosexual and verbally abused and physically assaulted her daughter because of her lesbian relationships. Threatened by the loss of her mother's love, B. began to think of becoming a man and, thereby, continue her homosexual relationships while also placating mother. |
| Charles Davenport, Saul Harrison, "Gender Identity Change in a Female Adolescent Transsexual", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 6:4 1977, p. 327 |
| | It was striking that the mother, who had nagged her daughter so much about appropriate dress in the right place, did not express pleasure when she started to dress appropriately. |
| | Understanding the family constellation was important to this girl's treatment. The mother's role in the family was that of a depressed, indecisive and devalued woman who accepted the blame for all the family problems. The father was psychologically and physically absent; his appearance of strength was based on degrading the mother and the maternal role. Certainly the patient's recognition of the true dynamics made identification with her mother more possible. It helped the patient take another look at the role of women and to see her parents marital situation as pathological and not like that of most families. |
| Gene Abel, David Barlow, Edward Blanchard, "Gender Identity Change in a Transsexual: An Exorcism", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 6:5 1977, p. 387 |
| | This case, and other recent developments, suggests a re-examination of the possibilities of psychosocial intervention to modify atypical gender identity. |
| Lionel Oversey, Ethel Person, "The Transsexual Syndrome in Males I. Primary Transsexualism", American Journal of Psychotherapy, 28:4 1974 |
| | I've tried for more than twenty years to conform to the traditions of society. I've tried to fit myself into a world that's divided into men and women, to live and feel like a man, but I've been a total failure at it. I've only succeeded in living the life of a near recluse, completely unable to adjust. |