9 years, range=16-28 years) were still available and amenable to continue participation in the study. Of the original 77 subjects, 54 subjects, or 27% (12 boys and 9 girls), were found to be gender dysphoric (the researchers defined this cohort as the "persistence group"), and 43% (desistance group: 28 boys and 5 girls) were no longer gender dysphoric (Wallien & Cohen-Kettenis)
"Thus, on the basis of culturally defined gender roles, men and women are expected to behave in certain ways; when they violate these expectations, others may evaluate them negatively." (Aguinis & Henle, 2001)
85). The ideal that women were more sexually insatiable than men undoubtedly led many families to lock up their unmarried daughters in order to avoid trouble (Brundage, p
Fairest ladies, not a few there are both of men and of women, who are so foolish as blindly to believe that, so soon as a young woman has been veiled in white and cowled in black, she ceases to be a woman, and is no more subject to the cravings proper to her sex, than if, in assuming the garb and profession of a nun, she had put on the nature of a stone: (Decameron, III:1: 002). Although women were considered to be illogical and insatiable, they were also expected to posess a certain "softness" that made it natural for them to assume a more submissive role during sexual acts (Salisbury, p
A more feminine man could not exist. In fact, Leander is described as looking like, "A maid in man's attire" (Marlowe line 86)
What was discovered was the transgendered people are mentally stable people and although they face great stress and many obstacles being transgendered in a society that may not accept them or more importantly, understand them, they remain normal. "There is much that I have learned in this process, but one thing is perfectly clear, transgender people are more like the rest of us -- cisgender people, those who do not challenge the sex binary -- than they are like one another" (Lev, 2013, p