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Forty-five selfdefined female-to-male transsexuals were interviewed
as part of a wide ranging sociological field study about female-to-
male transsexuals. The data in this study are unusual in that they
were obtained outside of any clinical settings. Questions were asked
about childhood experiences of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
Sixty percent reported one or more types of severe child abuse. In
the course of discussing other issues, participants also reported
having experienced many of the commonly cited initial and long-term
effects of child abuse, including fear, anxiety and depression,
eating disorders, substance abuse, excessive aggression, and suicide
ideation and attempts. It was not possible to determine to what
extent the sources of these complaints lay in child abuse, in gender
dysphoria, in some combination of the two, or elsewhere. While no
information was solicited about dissociative responses to child
abuse, I have speculated, as have some of the participants
themselves, that, in some cases, transsexualism may be an adaptive
extreme dissociative swival response to severe child abuse.
Yes their almost always left wing liberal Demnocrat parents abused
them.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J056v06n03_04?
journalCode=wzph20
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