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Proof of Use in Psychology by psychologist

user:Mattisse claims in multiple edit summaries made in the last day that this workd is not used in psychology and no psychologist are mentioned. Apparently they did not read any of the references or wikipedia bio's of any of the people in this article. As far as providing references, and for the sake of the "collected referecnes on this page... here are all of the references that are now in the article.I will just point to the wikipedia bio's. Ray Blanchard has a PhD in psychology, J. Michael Bailey has a PhD in psychology, Many of the references are from journals of psychology, written by people who are not either of those two mentioned, nor beholden to them. Journals of psychology. (Look at the references in the article to see this) That is enough to show that this word is used in psychology and psychiatry by psychologist. For that reason I am going to revert what you wrote. Heck It borders on a sort of stealth vandalism. Vandalism made to look like constructive help when any person of good faith no matter how they have felt about this at least stipulates that this is in psychology. That is why I am reverting your last edits. They are misinformation at best.--Hfarmer (talk) 15:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

• In any of the references is it shown that the term "Homosexual transsexual" is used by professional psychologists? Show me what diagnostic manual it is it. None of the article titles you reference from journals in Psychology use the term. Prove that the writers using the term are psychologists and that they are using the term as a diagnostic label. Also, remember that Psychiatry and Psychology are not the same discipline. —Mattisse (Talk) 21:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Mattisse, despite your comment here, I would be surprised to discover that you actually believed that clinical psychology was synonymous with psychology; anyone with any sort of background in the field is fully aware that clinical work is only one aspect of the study of the psyche. A theoretician that never sees a person face-to-face is every bit as much a "true psychologist" as a person with a license to do talk therapy. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:26, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Clinical psychology includes theory. But I am willing to amend that to psychologist. Just because a person has a PhD. in Psychology does not mean that person identifies as a psychologist. Notice that Ray Blanchard identifies as a sexologist. If I were an attorney and got a Ph.D. in Psychology, I might still identify as an attorney with a Ph.D. in Psychology. The field a person identifies with is not determined by the degree. The president of the state university near me has a Ph.D. in Psychology, yet her profession is University President. As I note below, psychologists do not have medical degrees and are not qualified to deal with issues in medicine, such as endocrinology, that pertain to the field of sexology. Note that the field of sexology draws people from several fields. It is incorrect to assign it to Psychology. to The profession of Psychology does not deal with assigning sexual labels. In fact, it is considered unethical, and the term "homosexual" was removed from the Diagnostic Manual. —Mattisse (Talk) 00:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

So you would therefore consider a professor of psychology to be a psychologist, regardless of licensing status? (Most US laws accept such a description as legitimate.) Even if that person's specific subfield is the psychological aspects of sexuality? Or is it simply a matter of self-identification, so that any undergrad psych student can say "I'm studying psychology, and therefore I'm a psychologist"? (This would not be acceptable in American courts.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

This comment is late in the game, but that inane conversation below physicist/physicists did reveal one thing. The dictionary definition of either did not make reference to job status, or educational attainment. As an undegraduate professors would start to refer to 3rd and 4th year students as physicists some times. People with degree's in one thing, often end up working in a field that is totally different. (i.e. half of the people I know who work in sales/marketing did not go to school for that.)--Hfarmer (talk) 14:59, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Not a psychological term

Please provide evidence that "Homosexual transsexual" is a diagnostic term typically used by psychologists. I do not believe it is. It may be used by sexologists but that is different. —Mattisse (Talk) 21:44, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

First of all nowhere does the article claim that this is a diagnosis, in the DSM or any other such thing. Therefore the article does not need to provide evidence....for something it does not claim.

Second the claim is made that the word is used in psychology take this reference, the article has a couple dozen just like it, look at the reference section of the article. Smith, Yolanda L.S. (2005-12-15). "Transsexual subtypes: Clinical and theoretical significance" (PDF). Psychiatry Research. 137 (3). Elsevier: 151–160. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2005.01.008. Retrieved 2007-06-26. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) That reference is in a journal of psychiatry/phychology. There are many others like it. Need more here's one more. Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T. (February 2003). "Gender-Dysphoric Children and Adolescents: A Comparative Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Behavioral Problems". Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 31 (1). Netherlands: Springer Netherlands: 41–53. doi:10.1023/A:1021769215342. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) This reference is also from a journal of psychology, a paper where people with degreee's in psychology, use the word to discuss the psycholgy of transwomen who are attracted to men. Oh yes two could be a conicidence how about a third one...Zucker, Kenneth J; Blanchard, Ray (October), "Birth order and sibling sex ratio in homosexual transsexual South Korean men: Effects of the male-preference stopping rule", Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 61 (5): 529–533, doi:10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01703.x {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) That's three citatiions, which were already in the article which show the word is being used in psychology.

Now to put this conversation to rest for good A google scholar search of ... homosexual transsexual psychology... turns up dozens of incidences. There. Now I will await a third opinion. While I am sure at least one user who comes by will also object to "used in psychology" they are not going to try and represent tht it is not used at all which seems to be your clearly unsupportable position. --Hfarmer (talk) 02:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

• (edit conflict)
• Very few of the names mentioned in the article are Ph.D. level clincial psychologists. Most are physicians, psychiatrists, sexologists or other disciplines. Psychologists can only diagnose according to the DSM-IV in the United States or ICD in other places. Psychology and psychiatry took great care to remove homosexuality from the diagnostic manual. You are talking about sexologists. Even the article says that the diagnosis of homosexual transsexual is controversial. That means psychology does not endorse or condone the diagnosis. The only psychologist clearly associated with this discipline is John Money who was discredited by the David Reimer incident. —Mattisse (Talk) 02:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

• Just substitue psychiatry for psychology and psychiatrists for psychologists and I won't care. There are ethical reasons why Psychology cannot be associated with this diagnosis. —Mattisse (Talk) 02:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

• "psychiatry/phychology" is not psychology. Just because you find some references does not mean the field of psychology condones the diagnosis. —Mattisse (Talk) 02:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I am starting a request for comments.--Hfarmer (talk) 03:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Mattisse, would you please clarify your comment that "There are ethical reasons why Psychology cannot be associated with this diagnosis"? Presumably a psychologist is adequately qualified to determine whether a person born male is (1) transsexual and (2) attracted to men -- and that's all this "diagnosis" really involves. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:15, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

If that is all the diagnosis "really involves" then you don't need a psychologist to deliver it. Psychologists are ethically bound to be responsible in assigning diagnoses. When the diagnosis "homosexual" was removed from the diagnostic manual, it became unethical to diagnose someone as homosexual. There is not diagnostic category "Homosexual transsexual". Some persons trained as psychologists may become sexologists, but that does not make sexology into psychology. Please see comments by User:Jokestress below. Even in the article, Homosexual transsexual there is mention that the diagnosis and the term is controversial. There is no general agreement on what the term means by those who use it. —Mattisse (Talk) 13:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree that there is currently no diagnostic code that divides transwomen into two groups based on whether they are attracted to men. I consider that fact unimportant: we categorize cancer patients according to many factors that aren't reflected in the ICD codes, either. If you had breast cancer, I'm sure you'd be unhappy to be told that nobody cared about whether it was hormone sensitive, or likely to spread, and that really all that mattered was which part of the breast it was located in -- which is all that the ICD-10 code tells you. Similarly, we don't have a separate code for "HIV+ because of drug use" vs "HIV+ because of anal sex", even though these factors do matter. Some professionals consider the distinction to be important (for reasons of differential outcome); they therefore categorize transwomen this way, and base parts of their treatment on it, even if that information never reaches the billing department. We have good sources that demonstrate that some psychologists use this concept; if you want to state the opposite, then please produce a good psychology/science source that says that the field of psychology has rejected it.

I agree that people don't really need a psychologist to "tell them" whether they are transwomen attracted to men, but under the current rules, they do need a psychologist to document their reality. This is a rather different activity: a psychologist might need to inform someone that he has atypical depression, but this is not the case for many "diagnoses" in psychology. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm opining per Misplaced Pages:3O. I've never interacted with anyone listed here, or in regard to this article. I'm here because this request for opinion was simply the next on the list.

Like "piles", this term may not be one that a psychologist would use with her peers, but she should certainly anticipate how the term is used by others who will expect them to understand them.--AuthorityTam (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Homosexual transsexual "Used in psychology"?

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I and a team of others wrote this article and never has this quesiton came up. The closest I can recall is one editor or the other wanting to characterize the level of acceptance of this term in psychology...never has anyone until now questioned that it is used in at least one subfield of psychology. My only argument is based on references. Look at them and judge for yourselves.

• Smith, Yolanda L.S. (2005-12-15). "Transsexual subtypes: Clinical and theoretical significance" (PDF). Psychiatry Research. 137 (3). Elsevier: 151–160. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2005.01.008. Retrieved 2007-06-26. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T. (February 2003). "Gender-Dysphoric Children and Adolescents: A Comparative Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Behavioral Problems". Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 31 (1). Netherlands: Springer Netherlands: 41–53. doi:10.1023/A:1021769215342. {{cite journal}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Zucker, Kenneth J; Blanchard, Ray (October), "Birth order and sibling sex ratio in homosexual transsexual South Korean men: Effects of the male-preference stopping rule", Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 61 (5): 529–533, doi:10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01703.x {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |journal= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
• A google scholar search of ... homosexual transsexual psychology... turns up dozens of hits.

Therefore I believe we can say at the very least the word is used in psychology. We can't say how well it is accepted or not... There are two users likely to show up here who would say different things. I will let them speak for themselves.--Hfarmer (talk) 03:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

That is the rub. Plenty of words are "used". That is why those of us in Psychology are continually cleaning out the category. For example, that is why we work to keep Category:Emotion out of Category:Psychology, as editors are constantly trying to put terms into Psychology that have no business there. If it can't go in the category, then leave psychologists out of the many cited in the article does not mean it is a psychological term. Almost none of the researchers mentioned in the article are psychologists, and because you can find three journals that mention the term "transsexual homosexuals" out the many referened does not mean the term is accepted in Psychology as a diagnostic term. The article isn't even in the Category:Psychology. Use Category:Sexology or, if you must, Psychiatry and Psychiatrists instead. Google search is not a substitute for valid research. —Mattisse (Talk) 03:26, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Mattisse. You are correct. While the term has been used occasionally, it has never been widely used. It is not a formal diagnosis or official diagnostic category. It's used primarily by people associated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a controversial former asylum in Toronto where one editor here has worked. Few theorists have ever used the term uncritically. Most theorists advocate incorporating more complex nonbinary concepts of sex or gender, more complex relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality, and/or additional nongendered dimensions into models of sexuality. User:Hfarmer self-identifies as "homosexual transsexual," which is why Hfarmer is so defensive about this article and exhibits WP:OWN issues when people question Hfarmer's POV or Hfarmer's attempts to get this decidedly bad article declared "good." Jokestress (talk) 03:38, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

But fundamentally we agree at least that it is used by at least some psychologist? right? Jokestress you and I disagree about using the word widely or rarely or whatever.--Hfarmer (talk) 14:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

The fact that it is used by a very few psychologists, who apparently consider themselves sexologists, does not mean the word is condoned by the field of psychology. If you look at the disciplines of the authors of the papers you use as references, you will find only a few are psychologists. One reason is that practitioners in the field of sexology benefit from having a medical degree. Psychologists do not have a medical degree, have no expertise in biology, endocrinology, genetics etc., and therefore do not have the training required for an in depth understanding of the field. The diagnosis is not recognized by the field of psychology, and in fact such diagnoses are actively discouraged by the American Psychological Association and other professional groups. Why not use psychiatry and psychiatrists (psychiatrists have a medical degree). —Mattisse (Talk) 14:37, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

@ Mattisse: I have proposed many times that the opening sentence say the term is used by some psychologists, to make it clear to readers that this term is controversial and not generally accepted. I have further suggested we note that most proponents are associated with a school of thought emerging from CAMH. That change has been consistently rejected by User:Hfarmer and others, which I consider an NPOV violation. The term has probably been used in publications by no more than two dozen psychologists in the past 50 years. For perspective, the American Psychology Association has 150,000 members, so we are talking about something less than 0.02% of their members (well under 1 in 5000). The number of transsexual people who use the term favorably in reliable sources is 0.00% (0 out of many millions). This is an obscure term that's part of an obscure debate. The only reason it gets so much attention on Misplaced Pages is because of two editors who very strongly advocate for its use. They are outliers and not representative of consensus, but this has gone on for years because of their strong personal/professional stakes in the outcome of the debate. I have published work critical of the term, and I am familiar with the literature, so I have been trying for years to keep these editors from misrepresenting this debate on Misplaced Pages, with limited success. Jokestress (talk) 15:59, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I am having some trouble understanding Mattisse' point of view. Although I can't say I have any strong opinion one way or the other, Mattisse' argument includes some falsehoods:

• It is true that few psychologists write on this topic, but only because so few scientists write on this topic: No profession has written more on this topic than have psychologists.
• I am also at a loss to see on what basis Mattisse can say that Blanchard does not identify as a psychologist. I have known and worked with Blanchard for a decade, and this would be news to me.
• The phenomenon of homosexual transsexuality is, of course, part of what some activists call a "Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence Theory" of transsexuality. Both Blanchard and Bailey are psychologists. Another proponent is Ken Zucker, who is the Chief Psychologist at his (that is, my) hospital and was appointed by the American Psychological Association to serve on their recent task force on gender identity issues.
• It is specious to argue whether homosexual transsexuality "is accepted in Psychology as a diagnostic term." A term does not need to be a diagnosis in order to be a phenomenon that psychologists study.
• I do not see the basis on which Mattisse can say that "practitioners in the field of sexology benefit from having a medical degree." Of the members of the major professional sexological associations (International Academy of Sex Research and Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality) only very few are physicians. Moreover, the physicians in sexology (in my experience) tend to identify as members of their medical specialty (endocrinology, psychiatry, etc.) rather than as sexologists.
• It is also incorrect to assert that because psychologists do not have a medical degree, they "have no expertise in biology, endocrinology, genetics etc., and therefore do not have the training required for an in depth understanding of the field." It is, of course, true that comparatively few people who plan on a purely clinical career in psychology will take an entire course in each of those fields; however, people who plan on research careers that require knowledge of those topics most certainly do. (Conversely, it is an error to assume that a physician, whose only exposure to genetics is a course in med school, is at all an "expert" in genetics.) A psychologists' range of expertise needs to be considered case by case, one cannot assume either expertise nor ignorance from having a degree (or license) in psychology or anything else.

As I said, I do not have any strong opinion about whether "homosexual transsexual" is a term in psychology, but the arguments against have not been (in my opinion) compelling. I think the discussion would get closer to the root the disagreement if Mattisse explicated some criteria for what constitutes a term in psychology so that folks could discuss those criteria and whether homosexual transsexual meets them.
— James Cantor (talk) 13:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• I fail to understand your points. Psychology is one field that individuals in which individuals may gain a degree. You will find that the few psychologists that write on subjects related to "homosexual transsexuality" identify as sexologists, and rarely (if ever) do they use the term "homosexual transsexual". Please list the psychologists who do not identify as sexologists or who do not coauthor articles with psychiatrists or others with medical training. Also, the google hits are misleading, as they return all hits with "homonsexual" + "transsexual" in the same article, regardless that they are not used in conjunction. Please remember that the field of Psychology considers it unethical to label people with terms such as "homosexual" etc. Why insist on using "psychology" and "psychologists" in the lead, when it is sexologists who are interested in the field. If including psychologists, then why not include the others. This is a quote from the sexology article."

In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, pedagogics, sociology, anthropology, and criminology. It studies sexual development and the development of sexual relationships as well as the mechanics of sexual intercourse and sexual malfunction. It also documents the sexualities of special groups, such as handicapped, children, and elderly, and studies sexual pathologies such as sex addiction and child sexual abuse. Sexology is often been the subject of controversy when its research findings contradict the philosophical or sacred beliefs of others.

• It is wrong and misleading to single out psychologists. —Mattisse (Talk) 15:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Mattisse, let us consider this case: A person has a PhD in psychology. His specific subspeciality is the psychology of sexuality. He identifies both as a sexologist and a psychologist. Does this person "count" as a psychologist in your books? Because it sounds like you're only willing to take the opinions of psychologists that are NON-experts in the relevant subspecialty -- say, people that only do talk therapy with kids, or people that have specialized in psychological reactions to physical trauma. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• This RfC is malformed, IMHO, I'm not sure exactly what the question is but it's certainly not neutrally presented. As to answer this generalized concern, at least partially, no one disputes that some researchers use the term but what weight and how to accurately convey the information is a part of NPOV. We don't state ____ is disputed, fringe, rejected, etc. unless it is so. Also we don't suggest or alude that it's widespread, gaining momentum, heavily cited, etc if it's not. -- Banjeboi 16:37, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Banjeboi. I don't want to get too far afield from the important issues raised by Mattisse regarding the neutrality and accuracy of stating "The term homosexual transsexual was defined in sexology and psychology to describe..." This suggests some sort of consensus or official position in these fields which does not exist. The term came into use in 1974 via Kurt Freund, immediately following the 1973 APA depathologization of homosexuality in the DSM-III. The term has never been widely used by anyone, though psychologists are among those who use it. Perhaps saying it is used by "some sex researchers" or "some behavior scientists" or "some theorists" or "some clinicians" would be a better way to proceed, since this doesn't single out any one academic/professional discipline and clarifies that the term is not widely used. The term is well-known to be controversial and reviled by the people it is intended to describe. Jokestress (talk) 16:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is unfortunate that Jokestress did not write the above without political loading, but I do agree with her actual recommendation: "Some sex researchers" or "some behavior scientists" are both neutral and accurate to my eye. (The terms "theorist" and "clinician," however, are less accurate and relevant.) — James Cantor (talk) 17:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• Agree with "Some sex researchers" or "some theorists" (as it is clear that the field includes more than "behavior scientists") or similar wording that avoids the connotation that a particular discipline or field condones the use of the term. —Mattisse (Talk) 17:59, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Ok we have a consensus on the word some....I think. How about this? In the lead sentence it will say...

homosexual transsexual is a term used by some sexologist and psychologist to describe transwomen who are attracted to men, and less often transmen who are attracted to women.--Hfarmer (talk) 18:23, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

The problem with that as we've discussed before is that these terms are used by other psychologists and sexologists to describe the opposite, so that is not accurate. I have proposed this: Homosexual transsexual is a controversial term used by some sex researchers to describe transsexual people with a "homosexual" sexual orientation, defined by their sex assignment at birth.

FYI: The plural of scientist, physicist, or any other word that ends in -ist takes an S. Scientists. Physicists. Since you want to be those things some day, I thought I'd point that out. You repeatedly misconstrue the plurals of these terms when editing and commenting. Jokestress (talk) 18:35, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

You should have let me elaborated as I have below and composed before the edit conflcit. But before I do....

First of all you should refrain from personal attacks but I can excuse it because..... Second you are wrong! The word physicist is a construction of the word physics, with the suffix ist. As websters dictionary says of the word physics Function:noun plural but singular or plural in construction Anyplace where you have seen the word "physicisists" they have been incorrect. furthermore according to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Physicists"phys·i·cist (fz-sst) n.A scientist who specializes in physics." Note webseters mentions no plural form, which if one existed it would. Really you english majors just have such a need to prove that you know more than us physicist... You just cannot stand that we have such cache, what other field can get the govt. to spend billions for the sake of our curiosity? By the common rules of scrabbel you don't get your triple word score and I penalize you 5 points. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Honestl we physicist joke about teaching the 101 102 level's of non-calculus based physics for liberal arts majors by calling it "physics for poets". They would rather debate why momentum is called momentum rather than just call it momentum and do the calculations. [http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/04/13/morley It's Time to End 'Physics for Poets'

April 13, 2006 By Edward Morley] Or even a U Hawaii where the actually call it that. lol. Really stop trying to prove your mental or other supeiroity to me. It's pointless. Just recognize that and move on as equals. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

(A correction for me I did find this http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physicists but it defines the word as a noun "a person who specializes in physics")--Hfarmer (talk) 19:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It's not a personal attack to point out you are wrong about something you added to an article. Ask all the physicists you know and all the scientists you know. You can even ask chemists, psychologists, sexologists, optimists, or any other ___ists to tell you the plural of the noun "physicist." It is "physicists." There is no alternate spelling or version, either. You are completely wrong. One physicist. Multiple physicists. If you don't believe me, that's fine. Just thought you should know so you won't continue making that regrettable mistake in front of people who are actual physicists.

Now, can we correct that in the opening sentence? It's yet another example of why this article is an ongoing embarrassment to the project. Even James Cantor and WhatamIdoing will agree with me if you cannot accept that I am correct. As discussed, let's use "some sex researchers" anyway, which is more accurate and avoids the whole problem. Jokestress (talk) 01:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I have shown you webseters dictionary in which the word physicist, and your spelling phyicists both lead to the same sigular definition "a person who specializes in pshysics." Stop making a fool of yourlself in trying to make me look bad. I actually like you too much to let that go on. I mean think about it... would you write breasts? Or pronounce it physcist..s come on. Your not talking to your brainwashed true beleiviers in the cult of Andrea here.--Hfarmer (talk) 02:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

← (outdent) I agree. This is a very minor point and of no relevance to the major issues being discussed. There is nothing to be gained in trying to put another editor in an unflattering light. I believe that Hfarmer's participation is in complete good faot and I personally would like to find a solution that would satisfy him. I do believe the topic is worth of an article. So I agree with him in this regard. And I thank you Hfarmer for your restained and appropriate participation in this discussion. —Mattisse (Talk) 02:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

You might want to look at my userpage... I'm a her. I am sure nothing was meant by it.--Hfarmer (talk) 05:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Agreed upon sentence In the context of a implemented lead paragraph

Here it is

Homosexual transsexual is a term used by some sexologist and psychologist to describe transwomen who are attracted to men, and less often transmen who are attracted to women. First proposed by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923, the term was used because early sexologists and psychologists thought the main difference between a male transvestite and a transsexual was same-sex attraction. The term or concept has since been used in articles by Harry Benjamin, Kurt Freund, Ray Blanchard and others. More modern alternatives recognize that gender identity not sexuality define a transsexual, while still differentiating between androphilic and gynephilic research subjects.

Here is what I think and why I wrote this....

1. The first sentence seems to me to be what we are agreed upon. Some sexologist,and some psychologist and physicans, endocrinologists, linguists and biologists... often the same people are both do use this words. By no means is there consensus, nor has the field not evolved to use different words to basically describe the same concepts and ideas.
2. I beleive we hashed out the hirschfeld thing in the GA review. Hirshfeld basically defined the words in german, in a book which he published and updated version of every year. At first not writing about TS/TG type people at all... then calling us all transvestitien and clearly deliniating that they were of all four cardinal flavors of sexuality... then speccifiying some people as just being transsexuals. Other references i.e. to Benjamin specify that back in the bad ol days being attracted to men was supposedly what made a transsexual different from a transvestite. Kurt freund then took this and restated it in english.
3. The term has been used in articles, books and papers by many, not just blanchard and bailey...
4. The alternative terms using androphilia and gynephilia are mentioned in the lead quite promiently. Though they respect gender identity... reading the articles they do still find difference between androphilic and gynephilic transsexual subjects. i.e. and already cited in the article...

"Sexological research has been done using these terms by researchers such as Sandra L. Johnson (1990) and Uwe Wolfradt (2001)." The words that back up that assertion are in Johnson 1990. "Results indicate a significant relationship between social gender reorientation and the feature of androphilia and between work adjustment and gynephilia. This differential adaptation is explained in terms of the different course that transsexualism takes within each typological subgroup."

The above I think represents all the pertinent parts of this subject in microcosm. That the word was used in the past, how it's use evovled as the professsions came to understand transssexuality and transgenderism better. How terms which (at least currently are thought of as) more sensitive by some transsexuals have come to be used in conjunction with or instead of them.

The sociopolitical arguement over these words... homosexual transsexual at least... to me belongs in the article on the book The Man Who Would Be Queen... While Autogynephilia was a political issue before that book. Arguably the term homosexual transsexual was not even heard 0.09% as much let alone talked about in a political manner before then. OR they should be in the overall article on BBL theory, where they can be placed in context next to the issues around autogynephilia. That's just IMHO about that.

Can we all live with this lead sentence and paragraph as describing the term homosexual transsexual, it's use and the evolution of it's use, at least in microcosm?--Hfarmer (talk) 19:21, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• Remove psychologist from the lead. As far as I can tell, there is one psychologist in the article that used the term. He is atypical. The term is not used by "psychologists". If you can find some support that the term is accepted by the field of Psychology, then I will support it. I will remind you that until about 15 years ago, a pet hamster could be registered as a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida. The term "psychologist" is thrown around loosely. Also, because a person has a Ph.D. in Psychology does not mean they practice in the field, comport with the ethics, and can be considered a psychologist. As I mentioned above, the president of the university near me has a Ph.D. in Psychology but obviously she is a University President, not a psychologist, although trained in psychology. Having a Ph.D. in psychology is not enough to be called a psychologist. —Mattisse (Talk) 19:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• Sorry. I didn't mean to disfigure your list above. That was a mistake as I though I was altering the initial paragraph suggestion. My point is there are other fields, namely medicine, that are more representative than psychologists of researchers and theories who study this and use the phrase. —Mattisse (Talk) 19:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

There is such a thing as consensus, which means what most of us can agree on is what is done. Jokestress would like it if the article said that the word was fringe, and crackpot, James cantor would like it if we made it sound like the word was just about to be in the DSM... Banjeboi says we can't say crack pot or fringe or accepted based on what evidence we have... You yourself said "some theorist" Or some researchers... theoriest and researchres in what. James cantor and Jokestress actually agree on the word psychology. All the rest of us agree at least on the first sentence., some psychologist not all... not a lunatic fringe just some. understand. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

There is not such a thing as consensus when it comes to discussing medical and scientific articles. Misplaced Pages has WP:MEDRS to cover the citing of articles relevant to this subject. You must follow those guidelines if you wish to have this other that WP:Fringe or WP:Pseudoscience. I would be all for having an article that discusses the issues you wish to discuss. I will even help you copy edit it (I am good at copy editing, even if I do not know much about this subject) if you just remove psychologists from the lead (as that is false) and follow WP:MEDRS if you want this to be scientific rather than a sociological or linguistic discussion. Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 20:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• I agree with Mattisse regarding following WP:MEDRS.
• I think it odd to saying that Blanchard is not a psychologist. His having a PhD in psychologist is a matter of record; the website of the regulating body for psychologists in Ontario has him listed as having a current license in psychology:
• I don't see the basis for saying there is only a single psychologist cited on the page who uses the term homosexual transsexual. The main page cites not only Blanchard, but also Bailey, Chivers, Cohen-Kettenis, Clemmenson, and Zucker.

— James Cantor (talk) 20:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• I object to the field of psychology being connected with this term, while other fields are not, regardless whether a few psychologists opine on the subject. The term was apparently coined by a physician and enlarged upon by an endocrinologist. Blanchard many have a Ph.D. in Psychology, but his mentor was Kurt Freund, a physician who was was conducting research in chemical castration for sex offenders, he was employed by Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, he is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and serves on a board of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatry does not equal Psychology. They are two different disciplines, one requiring a medical degree. As far as I know, there is no evidence, in any event, that Blanchard used the term in question. If we follow WP:MEDRS, many of these problems will disappear. We wrote a whole article on Major depressive disorder without having to affiliate MDD with a particular discipline. There is no need to do so here, except Sexology which specifically concerns itself with these issues. —Mattisse (Talk) 20:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Mattisse: I am emailing you a chapter Blanchard wrote in Clinical management of gender identity disorders in children and adults in which he indeed uses the term homosexual transsexual. A lot.
As I said previously, I have no strong feeling about using the word psychology here, but some of the arguments being presented here are simply counter-factual.
(If anyone else would like a copy of the chapter, feel free to back-channel me.)
— James Cantor (talk) 21:56, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I, too, am confused by this insistence that these people somehow don't "count" as psychologists because they once worked with people that had medical training, and that the leading proponents of the concept don't use the term. Mattisse, is it possible that you need to spend a bit more time reading about this issue before we proceed? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• (edit conflict - reply to James Cantor)

Great! As I said, I have no objection to an article about the term, following WP:MEDRS. I acknowledge that Blanchard used the term, as he has posted his article on the web. I disagree that the term originated with psychologists, that it is mostly or regularly used by psychologists, and that it is a "psychological term" rather than, say, a psychiatric term. If you can document otherwise, per WP:MEDRS, then fine. As I said, we wrote a whole article on Major depressive disorder without having to ascribe it to specific disciplines. I think it is a waste of time to do that here. It is clearly a term of use to sexology, which is a multidisciplinary field. Most of the names included so far in the article are not psychologists. This article isn't even categorized as Category:Psychology. This is not primarily a topic of concern to Psychology. Rather, researchers and theorists of many disciplines are interested in it, and study and write about it. Psychologists, in my experience, are concerned with these cases in a limited way, usually. That is because often there is a question of endocrinology and other medical issues. I think the topic is interesting. If you can find evidence that it is primarily of interest to psychologists only, then OK. But I do not think you will find a psychologist working in this area that is not affiliated with a medical/psychiatric institution. —Mattisse (Talk) 22:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Um, every singe category in the article is a branch from Category:Psychology. The first cat tree I checked runs like this:

:Psychology:Branches of psychology:Social psychology:Human behavior:Human sexuality:Gender

Do you want to reconsider your assertion that this article is not categorized under Category:Psychology? WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Um, No. Um, everything in Category:Social sciences is included under that reasoning. Um, I'm just glad it doesn't, um, show up in Psychology. —Mattisse (Talk) 00:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Well the thing about WP med RS is that I think the psychiatry/psychology thing is a sort of grey area... Any psychologist worth a salt now knows that when it comes down to brass tax...the mind/brain is chemical/physical interactions. Interactions which can be studied from any number of perspectives. Some works, like, for instance, Smith 2005 have a psychologist, psychiatrist etc involved. Mattisse consider a reference like this one and look at the people involved and what they did...

Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E; Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T (2006), Changing your sex changes your brain: influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure], vol. 155, Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht,Department of Medical Psychology and 2 Department of Endocrinology,: European Journal of Endocrinology, doi:10.1530, 1.02248 {{citation}}: Check |author-link= value (help); Check |author2-link= value (help); Check |doi= value (help); Check |url= value (help); External link in |author-link=, |author2-link=, and |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: location (link)

As you can see we have a psychiatrist, working with a psychologist (Those are just the top two authors, you can check the article and see that there were a number of other specialist who contributed to this). Who did the work at institutes, of psychology, psychiatry, and endocrinology, then published in a journal of endocrinology... You will note this finding of this research team...

Indeed, in transsexuals, cross-sex hormone treatment induceschanges in behavior and cognitive performance on tests thatare known to manifest differences between males and females.In MFs, 3 months of estrogen addition and testosterone suppressionresulted in a decline in anger and aggression proneness, sexualarousal, sexual desire, and spatial ability (usually males outperformfemales) and in an increase in verbal fluency (usually femalesoutperform males) (24, 26, 27)

Though the words homosexual transsexual do not appear, one of those references is "Van Goozen SHM, Slabbekoorn D, Gooren LJG, Sanders G & Cohen-Kettenis PT. Organizing and activating effects of sex hormones in homosexual transsexuals. Behavioral Neuroscience 2002 116 982–988. http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/external_ref?access_num=10.1037%2F0735-7044.116.6.982&link_type=DOI ]cgi/external_ref?access_num=000179691300005&link_type=ISI ."

Mattisse would you call the above references psychological, psychological, endocrinological, or some combination of all of those things?.--Hfarmer (talk) 06:24, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Study of these issues is multidisciplinary. I am not denying that psychologists are involved. I have been involved at various times in my career. I object to the formalization of "homosexual transsexual" as a "psychological term". I do not mind its use as a descriptive term if its meaning is agreed upon by the researchers using it. Psychology is inordinately sensitive to public perception and condemnation over issues involving sex. About 10 years or so ago, a perfectly sound methodological study was published in an American Psychological Association journal showing that in a sample of adults who were "sexually abused" as children, most did not have pathological effects lasting into adulthood. The negative public reaction to this one study was so great, accusing APA of condoning child sexual abuse, that APA apologized for the study and instituted procedures to prevent a recurrence of such publications. Can you imagine, in another discipline, a scientific article on a methodologically sound study being withdrawn because the public did not like the outcome? —Mattisse (Talk) 13:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes I can. In biology some places still teach creationism over evolution... because the people involved don't identify as the upright walking naked ape's we all essentially are according to Darwin et al. Or in physics/energy policy why not make every mode of transport in the USA electrical and power it all with 100 more nuclear plants? Public opinion. This controversy is kind of like that. Right now Jokestress says she would like it if we called "homosexual transsexual" deprecated...and declared androphilic male to female to be better... in ten years androphillic may not sound good because them it's too focused on liking men...or some such... It just goes on and on.--Hfarmer (talk) 01:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

As a professional person, there are many terms in my field that the persons labeled with the terms don't like. That is only relevant to a degree. People don't like the term "Borderline personality disorder". Many professionals don't like the term either, but it will not be changed because those so labeled don't like it. If it is changed, it will be changed because professionals don't feel it is properly descriptive of the condition, and the name would be changed to be more be more accurately reflective. I don't know what Jokestress's investment in this particular term, the article's title, is. But neither "homosexual" nor "transsexual" is a derogatory term, to my knowledge. So I am not clear why the combination of the terms should offend. —Mattisse (Talk) 02:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

In this particular case, the transwomen will (I believe) eventually be successful in getting the term killed because they don't like its reference to themselves as men that are attracted to other men. Some of the proponents of the concept (many of whom avoid or apologize for the term) seem to think that transwomen are significantly male, but I suspect that these "neurobiological technicalities" will be considered less important than not needlessly offending transwomen. There are, after all, other ways of describing this group that are equally accurate and less offensive. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree to an extent. This will be cyclical though. At one point in time long long ago, homosexual transsexual was not offensive, now it seems that to many it is. Flash forward 20 years and after the term androphilic transsexual has had time to gather some baggage... it too will be offensive. What is more interesting is what will become of the underlying concept? The concept that it makes a difference weather a transsexual is congenitally and terminally androphilic, or not.--Hfarmer (talk) 19:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

arb break

There seem to be few, if any, sources outside of Bailey, Blanchard, Lawrence and Zucker in the last 20 years that actually use this term. Is there actually any evidence it is still used in the way presented in this article outside of that small circle? (I'm unclear on the Smith et al. reference - they refer to "homosexual transsexuals" as having been married - which would suggest they use it to refer to someone who is homosexual according to their gender identity post-transition, not pre-transition as is the case with this article.) All four of the people mentioned have been discredited, had to resign from posts due to investigations and/or been attacked by their peers for bad work. The lead paragraph should probably indicate that it was a phrase used by psychologists etc - it was certainly in use by Benjamin and his peers, but the world has moved on and the phrase is considered archaic and offensive nowadays. ~Excesses~ (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

You asked for evidence that this term is used outside of Bailey, Blanchard, Lawrence and Zucker. Here it is.

• Smith, Yolanda L.S. (2005-12-15). "Transsexual subtypes: Clinical and theoretical significance" (PDF). Psychiatry Research. 137 (3). Elsevier: 151–160. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2005.01.008. Retrieved 2007-06-26. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

• MacFarlane, D. F. (August 1984). "Transsexual prostitution in New Zealand: Predominance of persons of Maori extraction". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 13 (4). Netherlands: Springer: 301–309. doi:10.1007/BF01541903. Retrieved 2008-02-26. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

That's just two in the last 20 years who are not any of the people you mentioned. That is just what is in this article already. I did a Gooogle Scholar search resitrcted to the term "homosexual transsexual" without blanchard bailey zucker or lawrence, restricted to the dates 1989-2009 There are 42 hits. Now some of them are not exact matches. But two that I found in this way, using google scholar are. dated by Google Scholar to 1989. Homosexuality in families of boys with early effeminate behavior: An epidemiological study B Zuger - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1989 - Springer. Those are just two which I cared to point out of a long list.

The point is there is evidence of this being used outside of that small circle in the last 20 years. As for claiming that all four of the people you mention hainvng been discredited. There is the fact that Blanchard and Zucker have enough of the professional respect of their peers to be appointed to the working groups which will write the portion s of the DSM which deal with gender issues and such. Which as the link I have provided demonstrates some people are up at arms about that. This proves that Blanchard and Zucker are not discredited by their peers at all. Though this at the same time does not mean that their ideas are genenerally accepted. The above refutes the assertion that these terms are archaic, or that Balanchard Bailey etc are discredited.

Now it falls to you Excesses to provide sources which say that this term is archaic, and/or that the people who use it are discredited.--Hfarmer (talk) 00:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

• ~Excesses~ is making good points. Please remember, you must consider WP:MEDRS. You must show not only does a majority of the scientific community involved in this subject use the term, but that they use it in a technical sense, as a term, and not merely that they use the two words together. Also, it seems that there are other terms that mean the same thing, so perhaps this article should be {{merge}}d with one of the others. Or else, rename the article "Controvery over the term homosexual transsexual. A Google search does not measure scientific relevance. Do a search for "good night". That gets 131,000,000 Google hits. —Mattisse (Talk) 00:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

As I noted above, the context of the Smith et al. quote in relation to marriage suggests they may be referring to "homosexual transexuals" in relation to their post-transition sexuality, which is the opposite sense to this article. The MacFarlane article is 25 years old and, unless you have access to the full article, we have no way of establishing how the phrase "homosexual transsexual" is used within it. I accept your point on Zucker and Blanchard - I would not regard the APA DSM-V working groups as any form of endorsement of anyone given their troubled history, but that's definite WP:POV. ~Excesses~ (talk) 01:11, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

With respect to smith et al this is what they say on the second page of their text..

"In the present study, the terms homosexual and heterosexual refer to erotic attraction to members of the same or the opposite biological sex, respectively." (page 2 column 1 of the PDF which is linked and you can download)

Also mattise, I was not trying to say that the term is used by the majority or a minority. It was excesses who was asserting that only sexologists x,y,z used it. I proved that more than that small group used it by showing that a larger circle than them used it. To call something archaic and the people who use it discredited there have to be reliable sources for that as well. --Hfarmer (talk) 03:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm confused by Smith et al. The abstract states: ...a lower percentage of the homosexual transsexuals reported being (or having been) married and sexually aroused while cross-dressing. This doesn't make any sense, in 2005 if someone was married they have to have been heterosexual according to their pre-transition gender identity, which is at odds with what they state on page 2. This is in complete contradiction to their use of language at the top of the first column on page 3 which is referring to married "nonhomosexual" transsexuals. The article cites 2004 and 2005 work, so it's definitely contemporary and not just a recent reprint of something old either. Does this indicate confusion in the use of the term by the journal that, or that the journal rejected the use of the term "homosexual transexual" to mean what the authors used it for?

Perhaps for the lead, "Homosexual Transsexual is a term used by some scientists and doctors but one that is regarded as potentially controversial and because of this and a potential to cause confusion, one that is falling into disuse...". I believe we probably have enough evidence to back the use of the phrase "potentially controversial" and it certainly doesn't appear to be used as much as it was? Renaming the article as Mattisse suggested seems too much - there's no doubt the phrase was used extensively in respected academic circles for many years. ~Excesses~ (talk) 09:11, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, following up on my comment immediately above - I've been playing with Google scholar. The cut-off date for the use of the phrase "homosexual transsexual" seems to be about 1990-1991, there are a few references for those years so it would seem to be about 18 years ago the phrase fell into general disuse. I didn't exclude BBL&Z when searching as I figured that might remove legitimate work that referenced them - I was quite surprised by the results. Most of the hits are "...blah, homosexual, transsexual, blah" - i.e. part of a list so one has to filter out the cruft fairly heavily. Smith et al seems to be the only one using the term recently that I could find and verify - I checked the journal it's published in and it's peer reviewed but the abstract is supposed to have been written at the same time the article was submitted by the authors so who knows how the confusion crept in. What surprised me was the number of papers in there that are basically highly critical reviews of TMWWBQ in particular and references to "homosexual transsexual" being confusing - I knew the scientific community wasn't too fond of Bailey but I hadn't realised how much so! From what I can see the term has stopped being used because it's confusing rather than offensive as there wasn't much of a trans rights movement in the 1980s to object to it's use. The backlash has come later and is mostly focused on TMWWBQ's use of the term and BBL&Z. ~Excesses~ (talk) 12:03, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Could you share with us the URL of how you did your search. Where did you place the cutoff dates? Because with what you are saying about I am basically a liar. Whereas I can present the evidence of these words being used in sexology not by BBL and Z not in reaction to TMWWBQ as you demanded. Furthermore the assertion that even Blanchard ann Bailey have not used the term since 1990-91 is patent nonsense WP:PN. Anyone who does a cursory and casual google search would see that. --Hfarmer (talk) 12:18, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

My search was this one. We can't assume that if we have not had sight of the original paper or book extract that it's using the term "homosexual transsexual" in the same way as this article - of the ones we can see, many fall into the category of critiques of TMWWBQ or lists that happen to include the words homosexual and transsexual next to each other. I didn't intend to assert that Blanchard and Bailey hadn't used the term since 1991 - clearly Bailey has as it's used in TMWWBQ. Sorry if I gave that impression. ~Excesses~ (talk) 13:17, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Not so, the work in 2005 from Smith et al uses the term just as it is used in the article. In that article many of Blanchard's assertions are tested and found to be true in regards homosexual transsexuals. (Blanchard's more controversial assertions deal with non-homosexual transexuals. Who he claims are motivated by Autogynephilia. Aside from psychich power I don't see how one can really know for 100% certain if such a thing was true of any given transsexual.) To declare the word to be archaic, or current, accepted or rejected we need sources that claim that, We can't just do a buch of OR and use that OR to make the declaration ourselves. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

another

I also think psychologist should be removed from the lead, as it gives too strong a link to the discipline, immpling greater acceptance. "some sexologists and other theorists" or something would be fine. Also, *ist words pluralise with an -s.YobMod 09:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks to all who have weighed in. As I have been stating for years, this term is controversial, confusing, archaic, and not widely used. The term was not "proposed" or "coined" by Hirschfeld (his "transvestiten" terminology further confuses matters) and is vehemently opposed by transsexual people as a group. Hfarmer and James Cantor have personal and professional reasons they do not want the article to reflect these facts. The term has rarely been used outside of the Archives of Sexual Behavior and is used almost exclusively by sexologists who work with James Cantor. As the verbosity above indicates, this quickly turns into a forum unless we adhere strictly to a discussion of sourced content for inclusion. I have stated for a long time that conflating this controversial term and the phenomenon of transgender sexuality, specifically transmen attracted to women and transwomen attracted to men, is a key reason this article remains so unstable. "Homosexual" has been around since 1869 (Benkert). "Transsexualismus" was used by Hirschfeld in 1923 to describe what is currently called intersex and has been around in its present definition since 1949 (Cauldwell). "Homosexual transsexual" has been around since 1974 (Freund). The phenomena they describe have been around throughout recorded history. It is these 19th- and 20th-century medicalized conceptualizations that are controversial. A small but vocal group of disease-mongerers perpetuates this debate, while most progressive theorists see all of this stuff as a classic example of iatrogenic artifact. Jokestress (talk) 18:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

It would be equally accurate to say that you have "personal and professional reasons" for wanting to see the term discredited, but could we perhaps focus a little more on the content, and a little less on trying to marginalize and disparage individual editors? WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I disagree as well. The fact is the people we cite through the article who use the word are psychologists. Saying that some psychologists use the word does not imply acceptance. That implication is read into the words by you. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed resolutions

Ok here is what I am going to do. If anyone objects it can always be undone. In the body of the article I have made the change based on other discussions that this is what the article will say.

• The concept originated with Magnus Hirschfeld, but not the term (since he was not using english).
• The term was "defined by Kurt Freund and is used by some sexologists and psychologists.

Please look at how these play in the context of the article. Thankyou.--Hfarmer (talk) 20:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Plural of psychologist, sexologist, scientist, physicist, etc.

The current first sentence of the article says it "is a term used by some sexologist and psychologist..." Is that gramatically correct, or do the plurals of words that end in -ist require an S? Should the sentence say it "is a term used by some sexologists and psychologists..." or is the grammar correct as is? (talk) 15:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

• psychologist → psychologists; sexologist → sexologists; scientist → scientists; physicist → physicists. That is what I think. —Mattisse (Talk) 17:36, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
• As seems to have already been agreed above, Jokestress is correct about the plural forms of these words, but I find the community-wide RfC over such a unbelievably minor and trivially resolved point to be remarkably vexatious use of process that is clearly intended to publicly embarrass one editor. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
• It is intended to get the first sentence corrected. If we are all in agreement and this bizarre discussion about plurals is over, please correct the article and I'll remove the RFC tag. If not, I'll add back the cleanup and NPOV tags till all the problems here are resolved. Jokestress (talk) 18:11, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
• Whatever. No actual physicists I asked about this thought that made sense....so S is a silent consonant. Put it in the sentence how you like. Had you not needed to try and degrade me for not being a stellar speller this would have gone smoother.--Hfarmer (talk) 01:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
• The plural forms of these nouns are completely normal. Just add an "s" to the end of the word. There's a request for comment about this? LadyofShalott 05:06, 17 April 2009 (UTC) (And what does spelling have to do with whether or not it's NPOV? Those are separate issues.) LadyofShalott 05:10, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Transsexual community response: proposed text

Proposal 1

Moving on to a major POV problem with the article, let's discuss how we should cover trans community response to this term:

According to Leavitt and Berger, "transsexuals, as a group, vehemently oppose the label and its pejorative baggage." Transwoman Andrea James has called the term "inaccurate and offensive," and transman Aaron Devor wrote, "If what we really mean to say is attracted to males, then say 'attracted to males' or androphilic... I see absolutely no reason to continue with language that people find offensive when there is perfectly serviceable, in fact better, language that is not offensive." J. Michael Bailey and Kiira Triea, prominent critics of transsexual activists, state that Triea's transkids.us website is written by and about people who anonymously endorse "homosexual transsexual" as a self-identity but fear reprisals for going public.

User:Hfarmer has proposed another source, but this has not been proposed as a sentence that summarizes that source. I don't believe there's any new info in that source about community response to the term "homosexual transsexual." Comments welcome. Jokestress (talk) 06:44, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

That's not a POV problem. The reference from Bailey and Triea is a peer reviewed paper in an academic journal meeting the relevant wikipedia standards. Writting their assertion that some people do not find the word offensive, and making clear it is their assertion, is not a POV sentence.

As for the article "Dr. Sex" one needs to understand the context to get the significance of that one. (If you think this is TLDR you can skip to the italic text at the middle and the end. But It really doesn't make sense without a bit of explaination) Dr. Sex refers to J. Michael Bailey, the article is about his socializeation with a group of transsexuals who featured prominently in the book The Man Who Would Be Queen after it was published. The article tells us that Bailey categoizes many of them as "homosexual transsexuals", and hints at them being aware of that. However more sources, can shore up that one. Another source, by one Alice Dreger "Dreger AD (2008). "The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age" (PDF). Arch Sex Behav. 37 (3): 366–421. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1. PMID 18431641. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)" Dreger asserts these pseudonymous women were shown the manuscript pre-publication and asked for their feedback. Dreger mentions an article in Northwestern Universities school Newspaper called "True Selves" (Gibson, M. (1999, February 24). True selves. The Daily Northwestern(‘‘Focus’’ section), p. 1, 5.) in which one of the women, who were reported as socializing with Bailey after the publication of his book, is explicitly refered to as an example of a homosexual transsexual. The following while it is a source does make the notion these women knew Bailey called them "homosexual transsexuals" in his book plausible. This is the section of the book where the term is used. This was on the internet for a good long while before the book was published. That can all be dismissed as OR...but don't rely on me Dreger who I have cited writes in a WP:V RS...

Remember that on June 20, 2003, Wilson published in the Chronicle of Higher Education her ‘‘Dr. Sex’’ feature on Bailey and his book—a gossipy, in-person accounting that included the story of her excursion to the Circuit nightclub on May 22, 2003, with Bailey, Kieltyka, Juanita, and several of the other transwomen whose stories appeared in TMWWBQ (Wilson, 2003a). According to that June 2003 feature by Wilson, Kieltyka was openly disenchanted with Bailey’s account of her as an autogynephile, but by Wilson’s and Bailey’s accounts, the night out in May had been friendly (Bailey, 2006a; Wilson, 2003a). Even Kieltyka did not contradict this account when I asked her (Kieltyka,2006c). The transwomen who accompanied Wilson and Bailey to the club in May 2003 understood they were helping Bailey promote the recently published book by meeting with Wilson and why not, since, according to Wilson, ‘‘they count Mr. Bailey as their savior’’ (Wilson, 2003a).

Now if the term homosexual transsexual was so higly offensive to the delicate gender identities and self images of these women then why the hell would they socialize with Bailey after he published a book calling them homosexual transsexuals? Free Beer? If the very utterance of these terms is what Jokestress says it is, universally damaging and horrible in and of itself... then why did these women not tell Bailey to go to straight to hell when he invited them to Circuit (A nightclub on Halstead in Chicago's "boys town")?

My questions can also be called OR and dismissed. But again Dreger ask simmilar questions about why all of the sudden it seems these women were offended, after talking to our Andrea James and one Lynn Conway?

(Kieltyka, 2006c). But why, one has to wonder, didn’t Wilson ask in July what was going on to have caused such a radical shift in relations? Why did Wilson not use her serendipitous insider knowledge—something any reporter would surely have been delighted to have on such a good story—to raise questions about why these women went so rapidly from being Bailey’s friends to claiming a long history of abuse at his hands?

All of this suggest that the transsexual communities response is a bit more complex than Jokestress would have us all belive.--Hfarmer (talk) 10:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal 2

Everything above is WP:SYN. The proposed paragraph already includes Bailey's assertions about community response. I propose we add:

According to Leavitt and Berger, "transsexuals, as a group, vehemently oppose the label and its pejorative baggage." Transwoman Andrea James has called the term "inaccurate and offensive," and transman Aaron Devor wrote, "If what we really mean to say is attracted to males, then say 'attracted to males' or androphilic... I see absolutely no reason to continue with language that people find offensive when there is perfectly serviceable, in fact better, language that is not offensive." J. Michael Bailey and Kiira Triea, prominent critics of transsexual activists, state that Triea's transkids.us website is written by and about people who anonymously endorse "homosexual transsexual" as a self-identity but fear reprisals for going public.

If anyone has anything they want to add or change, please present your additions or changes to this paragraph below for discussion. Jokestress (talk) 15:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Actually all of the above is backed by looking at Dreger's article, where she describes the actual initial response of Juanita and the others written about as HSTS in TMWWBQ. Dreger is where I got the reference to the article in the chronicle, and it's her analysis. All I did was argue for why Dreger's analysys, which is published in a WP:V RS could be included.

Since it seems you now propose leaving Bailey and Triea's paper in then there is no reason to kick a dead horse by mentionging dreger's article or it's work in this instance.

Therefore I can agree with your proposed draft as is, and will WP:BOLD put it in the article in an appropriate place.

(I still would like to know the answer to why they would party with someone who supposedly called them a horrible terrible word which you have tried to compare to the N word and other such epithets?)--Hfarmer (talk) 22:25, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

(Outendenting)I have made changes. This is how I have it...

According to Leavitt and Berger, "transsexuals, as a group, vehemently oppose the label and its pejorative baggage." gynephilic Transwoman Andrea James has called the term "inaccurate and offensive," and transman Aaron Devor wrote, "If what we really mean to say is attracted to males, then say 'attracted to males' or androphilic... I see absolutely no reason to continue with language that people find offensive when there is perfectly serviceable, in fact better, language that is not offensive." J. Michael Bailey and Kiira Triea, prominent critics of transsexual activists, state that Triea's transkids.us website is written by and about androphilic transwomen who are not offended by "homosexual transsexual" as a phrase. Bailey and Triea say that these transwomen fear reprisals from transgender activist if they went public.

Here is the why of each change.

1. I think it is important information that you yourself Jokestress are not a subject of this term, you are gynephilic.
2. I think it is important information that the women on transkids are self described as androphilic.
3. This is the most important point, they do not "accept as a self identity" these terms. They, and I don't think of our transsexuality in terms of "identity". I am just being me, and if what I am turns out to be a transsexual so be it it's not something I must strive to fit in as. I have read the article Bailey and Kira wrote... It would not say that the TK.US writers endorse HSTS as an identity... Take this for a sample from that website.

"Homosexual transsexuals are all a bunch of ego-dystonic gayboy fags."This is the illogical converse to "we're all the same". We find that the other type of transsexual wants to be like us as long as we go along with the deal and work hard to be supportive and understanding of them and provide them with interesting authentic details of our lives for them to appropriate. We're just sex crazed gayboys when they get mad at us though. Autogynephilic transsexuals object to hsts being called "Homosexual Transsexual" because in part it makes us harder to relate to in their desire to present as a population that they do not belong to. "Homosexual Transsexual" is not an identity though. Our "identity" is very self evident and socially obvious and hsts isn't what we "are" or our "identity", it's just how we got here since after all we were not born as girls we were born as boys.What is wrong with some common transsexual ideas

And interestingly the way they define the term homosexual transsexual....

Homosexual Transsexual: A transsexual who transitions young principly for social reasons. As boys they're very queer and have a difficult time socially, romantically, and sexually, so they transition to fit in better and have more normal lives in those three areas. They are etiologically similar to homosexual boys with commonalities in childhood and adolescence. Homosexual transsexual sexuality is uncomplicated, typical, and unconfused, they are simply attracted to and desire relationships with men. They tend to view transition as a way to facilitate other life goals such as being regarded as normal by peers, having an easier time getting relationships with boys, etc. (Abr. HSTS)Some terms and meanings

Now I know these are not WP V RS's... in fact they are primary sources... but they are represented in the article by Bailey and Triea which is a WP V RS. WP should represent what is in that V RS, and really should not write what would be utter nonsense to anyone who can go to transkids.us and read for themselves. They clearly do not "self identify" in fact they, and I repudiate the whole concept of an innate gender identity or feminine essence, or whatever the heck it is called. (And I am prepared to wait... in the words of Adilai Stevenson "till hell freezes over." for an answer to why Juaita, Maria, Alma etc would party with Bailey on the occasion of TMWWBQ being published knowing what it said?)--Hfarmer (talk) 22:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

• Please keep in mind WP:MEDRS (which does not consider primary sources reliable for most information) if this article is to be about psychological/psychiatric issues, as well as WP:V. Also, please keep in mind WP:UNDUE. An encyclopedic article should not reflect personal opinion. Terrorists may not accept that they are terrorists, but if reliable sources say they are, then for the purposes of Misplaced Pages they are. Also, because someone with a degree in psychology uses a term, that does not mean the field of Psychology considers the term valid. Only WP:MEDRS can determine that. I am sure you can relate to this in physics. If someone with a degree in physics has a novel theory of gravity, that does not mean that the field of Physics radifies and propagates that theory as "true". So far, the article does not seem to be about the article topic, but rather about controversies surrounding the use of the term. —Mattisse (Talk) 19:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

The topic itself is covered at transgender sexuality, transwomen attracted to men, and transmen attracted to women. This article is about this specific term or category, which has been notable for being controversial for decades. Jokestress (talk) 19:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

For the above, please read "Jokestress wants this article to be strictly limited to...". Nobody else has agreed to this. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:36, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal 3

Once again, please do not add text to the article until we have come to a consensus on the talk page.

According to Leavitt and Berger, "transsexuals, as a group, vehemently oppose the label and its pejorative baggage." Transwoman Andrea James has called the term "inaccurate and offensive," and transman Aaron Devor wrote, "If what we really mean to say is attracted to males, then say 'attracted to males' or androphilic... I see absolutely no reason to continue with language that people find offensive when there is perfectly serviceable, in fact better, language that is not offensive." J. Michael Bailey and Kiira Triea, prominent critics of transsexual activists, state that Triea's transkids.us website is written by and about androphilic transwomen who are not offended by "homosexual transsexual" as a phrase. Bailey and Triea say that these transwomen fear reprisals from transgender activists if they went public.

Revisions and reasons:

1. Our sexualities have nothing to do with the reasons Dr. Devor and I consider the term problematic.
2. The plural of activist is activists.

Comments welcome. Jokestress (talk) 23:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Take the world from another point of view and think about how your "Once again, please do not add text to the article until we have come to a consensus on the talk page." looks in light of WP OWN and why your sexuality might matter. I will remove the words but really you ought to think about it.

I have given you most of what you want. So I will add the s's and remove your gynephilia from this. Aand we can call this a day now? Or can't we?--Hfarmer (talk) 23:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

It is both pragmatic and a common courtesy on Misplaced Pages to come to consensus on the talk page before making substantive changes to controversial articles. If an editor is making changes to the article while something is being discussed, it makes the whole process more complicated. It often adds new problems that need to be addressed, thus delaying completion. As an example, once we had the text figured out, I wanted to discuss the subheading. I propose "Transsexual community response" as the subhead. It's more neutral to use transsexual as an adjective and not as a noun, and opinion suggests this is an issue of our subjectivity vs. some sort of scientific objectivity. Whatever we use, we should use the same construction for the response among sexologists and the response among academics in general. Jokestress (talk) 01:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I am drafting a proposed section on the response within sexology, but there's some overlap with the trans community to address. Aaron Devor's view is especially relevant, as he's both a transman and a sexologist, so perhaps we should identify his occupation in this section. Jokestress (talk) 15:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I think instead of thinking of this as a section, you should think of this as expanding on the sections that already deal with how this is treated by sexology. I.e. expanding on the use of alternative terms, and criticism of this term, which would fit into what we have here. A section on the response within sexology... would have to include all of the people who have used the term, why and how they used it... In a sense the whole article is about that, and the phenomena the term seeks to describe. That of transwomen attracted to men and their experience as a separate but related phenomena to that of transwomen who are not attracted to men.--Hfarmer (talk) 23:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Response in sexology

Jokestress. Consider that there is already such a section in this article, though it is not given a section heading. If it's a matter of having to light up criticism with a neon sign for you we can just add a section heading to this. As I have recently edited it this is what it says.

While the concept that transsexuals can be classified by sexual preference has been used in research for decades, in recent years applying the terminology used for cisgender persons to transgender persons has been questioned, and a gender non-specific alternatives suggested. In the words of Benjamin, male to female transsexuals can only be homosexual if anatomy alone is considered, and the psyche of MTF transsexuals is ignored. According to him after SRS calling a male to female transsexual homosexual is pedantic. One must bear in mind that when Benjamin was writing, transsexual implied male to female, and attracted to men.

Others agree with what Dr. Benjamin wrote about the use of this term one of which is biologist and linguist Bruce Bagemihl. Bagemihl wrote that this terminology makes it easy to say transsexuals are really homosexual males seeking to escape from stigma. Sexologist Jim Weinrich opined that sexologist Ray Blanchard looked for information to support his theory instead of letting the evidence guide his theorizing, by using "a series of clever questionnaires and plethysmogaphic studies." Weinrich stated that Blanchard asserted all female to male transsexuals were "woman loving"Leavitt and Berger criticized in 1990, that "The homosexual transsexual label is both confusing and controversial among males seeking sex reassignment. Critics argue that the term "homosexual transsexual" is "heterosexist", "archaic", and demeaning because it labels people by sex assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. Benjamin, Leavitt, and Berger have all used the term in their own work. Sexologist John Bancroft also expressed regret for having used this terminology, which was standard when he used it, to refer to transsexual women. He says that he now tries to choose his words more sensitively.

1. Before it said "dominated research" However no source says "dominated" (just the same way no source says used by "some") So I re factored that sentence to refer to the concepts appearance in works by various researchers over the years.
2. Basically this is a scientific criticism section just without the name. Remember sexologists, even and especially the ones who see things jokestress's way think of themselves as scientists. Thus this is a disagreement primarily within a field of science..
3. This has most everything jokestress wanted which was discussed and found to be reasonable in the very very long discussions of the third GA review. This is mostly consensus language.--Hfarmer (talk) 16:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

It might make sense until the RfC is resolved before this is discussed - as per my note above, it seems the article should indicate that this is largely an archaic phrase - as such, less emphasis is needed on the reaction of the trans community to the phrease. ~Excesses~ (talk) 23:37, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

FYI the editors involved in this covered the territory you brought up already. Here is the general consensus.

• A source needs to be found for claims of how broadly accepted OR how totally rejected these terms are. So far no authoritative WP acceptable sources make any claims about just how well accepted "homosexual transsexual is, or it's currency. On the page Talk:Homosexual_transsexual/GA3 that all cited research would need to have it's date mentioned in the text at least once. This will allow the reader to draw a conclusion on the currency of these terms. To write that these terms are accepted/rejected, or the researchers that use them are respected/discredited, there has to be a WP:V WP:MEDRS etc compliant sources.
• Not including the reactions of the transsexual community would leave out an important piece of the puzzle. Therea are good reliable sources which speak to it. It was my feeling that the article which dealt with the controversy over Blancahrd's theory was the place for that. Since that article does not exist, a section with that reaction is warranted. That's IMHO, and User:jokestress was the one who wrote that for the most part, though I did tweak the language a bit. --Hfarmer (talk) 00:54, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Hirschfeld's use of the term uncited in place and not supported by citation in another and coinage given different dates in two places

I am responding to the request to comment from the LGBT section. Having read Bailey etc., I'd not want to get into a discussion about whether the term has been used by psychologists (read the books and papers, for example: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=270170), however, could somebody provide a reference which verifies Hirschfeld's use of the term please, as I've not come across this in my reading of him - if the words do feature in translation, and does this accurately reflect his use in the contemporary German, or is a later interpretation in translation? Mish (talk) 16:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me - 2nd time - could somebody substantiate the statement that Hirschfeld used the term 'homosexual transsexual' please - my understanding is that the word transsexual was not in currency until after Cauldwell's use of 'transexual' in the 1940's, Hirschfeld used the word 'transvestite' - I do not recall reading 'homosexual transsexual' when when I read him (but that was before Bailey published his book), although he did talk about 'homosexual transvestites' (in German). If you cannot substantiate it, can you correct the error please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MishMich (talk • contribs) 03:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

You are right he did not use the english language word "transsexual" because he was writing in German. He did not use the english word "transvestite" either. What Hirschfeld used was the German word transvestitien, and he categorized his transvestitien by sexual orientation. In Talk:Homosexual transsexual/GA3 a number of users got a hold of the original german work. Which was published in the form of different editions for a number of years. By the final edition as one other user pointed out....

"Hirschfeld used the term seelischen Transsexualismus, or spiritual transsexualism, which he associated with a form of "inversion," but he did not use the word transsexual as we use it today." He used the word "transvestite" for that, which also has a different meaning today. I believe this complicates matters here for a general reader. Jokestress (talk) 14:33, 8 April 2009 (UTC)"

Other users who also knew german and read the originals concured with her on this. Thus it can be said that hirschfeld had this concept in his mind in some form or fashion. To disregard a source just because it's not in contemporary US english would not make sense.--Hfarmer (talk) 03:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

So, he didn't use the term 'homosexual transsexual', and to develop a position that he used the term 'homosexual transvestite' as if it meant 'homosexual transsexual' would be transposition of a later understanding back to his time as if it existed then. That would be either original research, or opinion, and cannot be supported by references. Mish (talk) 08:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

To disregard a source just because it's not in contemporary US english would not make sense - however it' difficult to justify use of a foreign-language source to back up the assertion that a particular phrase in English was used by someone without some sort of qualification in the article.. In fact, the "Hirschfeld" talk page archives seem to support the view that he didn't use the term as the word transexual wasn't introduced until later on. Perhaps the lead could be changed to say something like "The first uses of this term derive from German-language works by Hirshfield in 1923..."? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Excesses (talk • contribs) 08:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Not my problem. I don't have to show he did not use this term, you have to show he did. I am not saying he should be disregarded, but that he did not use the term (in English or German) as stated, in 'Hirschfeld first proposed the term', he didn't he used a similar term which did not then have the same meaning it does today. Please re-phrase it in a way that uses the translation of the term Hirschfeld used, or change it from 'term' to 'a similar concept'. Then sort out the rest of the sentence, Hirschfeld did not distinguish between transvestites and transsexuals - his research extended his concept of the 'transvestite' in a way that it included people who today would be called 'transsexuals' - thanks Jokestress, I don't want us confusing the general reader, but neither do I want us misinforming them. I'd rather not be involved in discussions on this page, but this kind of jumped out of the page at me - even Blanchard acknowledges Hirschfeld's inspiration, but not the coinage. If you do this, I'll be happy and can go and play somewhere else. Mish (talk) 10:05, 21 April 2009 (UTC).

Found another instance where both the 'term' and 'concept' are attributed to Hirschfeld, the references may support 'concept', but not 'term'. The two statements give different dates, are they different references? if not make clear they are both 1922, if so provide the citation for 1923 - the 1922 reference could use the volume (3), publisher (Marcus & Weber, Bonn), and ideally page number(s). Mish (talk) 13:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I have a basic and practical question for you. How precisely do we refer to the concept without using this term? Should we simply say that the concept of the homosexual transsexual was first postulated by Hirschfeld and leave it at that. Or do we insist that the concept they seek to describe is simply that of any transsexual woman who is attracted to men. Since that does not really describe the concept completely.. i.e. a transwoman who's sexual orientation changes due to transition, or SRS is not considered a homosexual transsexual by most definitions of the phrase I have seen? How can we precisely refer to the concept being discussed here?--Hfarmer (talk) 16:33, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

@hfarmer: Not sure what you are trying to say. I don't see a problem with saying something like 'Hirschfeld developed a concept very similar to what is now termed 'homosexual transsexul by XYZ. I do see a problem with saying he proposed the term when there is no reference to support this. If what he said would not account for what happens to transsexuals in the process of taking hormones, social transition and SRS, then this is a problem I guess, and if these are a significant aspect to the theory of homosexual transsexuality - then that is a bigger problem. Saying he proposed the term doesn't get you out of that, but saying he developed the concept doesn't work either if I understand you right. The way round this would be to go back to the source (Blanchard) and reflect what he said about Hirschfeld, either in the earlier papers or, for e.g.:

'Magnus Hirschfeld distinguished four main types of “Transvestiten”: heterosexual, asexual, bisexual, and homosexual. Hirschfeld applied these labels to transsexuals the same way he did to persons with anatomically congruent gender identity' and developed his usage of 'homosexual transsexual' from this and other sources. (Autogynephilia and the Taxonomy of Gender Identity Disorders in Biological Males (2000))

Because you cannot get to what is said the way it stands from Hirschfeld without interpreting his meaning as being different from what was actually written. It's not my problem, as I'm not interested in editing this page, you are. Mish (talk) 19:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Ok so I will replace that he coined the term with that he developed the concept. How about that?--Hfarmer (talk) 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

To your second points. As for not accounting for what happens to transsexuals due to hormones and SRS... First of all what you just said is rooted in your belief in biological determinism. Hormones do not result in attracion to men. Homosexual males hormone levels are normal for a male 99.99% of the time, I'm sure. SRS, a mere re arragnement of bodily tissue which is far away from any brain center that could not possibly control who one finds attractive. Being transsexual being rooted in the brain, most likely, but there can be many valid ways to look at that, both a neurological and psychological/sexological point of view and both can be simeltaneously correct. I would encourage any psycholgist reading this to try and take this issue from the POV of a transwoman, and any transwoman to try and take this issue from the POV of one of the sexologist. As if you never looked at it or heard of it before. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:53, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Archaic

There seems to be some debate about the fact that this diagnosis is considered archaic, even though that is sourced in the article. Here's the full quotation, which is a good summary of why sophisticated theorists reject this terminology:

These diagnoses, now deemed archaic, conflate homosexuality with transsexuality in regards to the "female homosexual transsexual" or the "male homosexual transsexual," in which transsexuality is placed as the "extreme" form of homosexuality. Thus, a heterosexual transman--that is, an FTM who is attracted to women--would be considered the extreme form of a crossdressing lesbian (transvestite) who desires women. Rosario also points out how transsexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality have been imbricated in academic scholarship, so that transsexuality is confused with crossdressing (Marjorie Garber), or else vilfied as an antifeminist plot of the patriarchy (Janice Raymond, H.S. Rubin).

Wahng goes on to discuss the evidence that "invert" was actually the predecessor of the transsexual. Perhaps we should expand on this important point about conflation. Jokestress (talk) 20:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

All you had to do is point it out. It's not like I own a bunch of gender theory books or spend time at the library looking these things up (You may have noticed my tendency to favour online references, since they are trivial to find, and trivial to check). So How about this. The lead sentence will incorporate that some deem this term to be archaic. And the reference will be in the body of the article under alternative terms. In the future please don't assume that others have the same access to these books that you apparently do and assume that they are just uncooperative. Be proactive and point out where these things are. That's all you needed to do.--Hfarmer (talk) 20:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

What's the number on the footnote? WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I have made changes which I feel are appropriate based on this citation and some others. I have tweaked the opening sentence, but I can't see calling a word archaic based on a reference which relates the opinion of one person in a field. However I have it written in the lead that wahng says the word is archaic. I also have that written in to the body of the article. I also want it to be known that say James Cantor finding some other reference which says it's not archaic would undo the mentioning of whang. That would just be another reference to add to the article.

I demand an apology from jokestress. (here and elsewhere) She has made all kinds of crazy claims that I am a fake transsexual member of the clarke northwestern clique etc. etc. far above any mere on wiki assumptions of bad faith. All because, and basically because, I demanded from her that her word alone was not enough to call these words archaic or discredited or to go along with whatever she said. I did not react to Dr. Cantor with bad will (afterall unlike her and one of her cohorts he's never insutled me even when I did not agree with him) Basically I made her work like the rest of us and have to find the book and point out in a reference what she wanted. Now that she has done this, no arguement from me. I made the change. Unless it is shown by someone else looking up the same book that this is a fabrication or something I would not consider unmaking the change. I will fight to keep whang in there. But if I don't get some kind of a sorry, then I am going to be steamed.--Hfarmer (talk) 21:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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