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== Motives and models of GID and transsexualism ==

== Motives and models of GID and transsexualism ==

How this condition relates to [[homosexuality]] is hotly debated.  At the time of Kinsey's evaluation of human sexual behavior, transsexualism was modeled as being so homosexual that one felt a need to interact with heterosexual members of their own sex.{{fact}}

How this condition relates to [[homosexuality]] is hotly debated.  At the time of Kinsey's evaluation of human sexual behavior in ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (1948), transsexualism was modeled as being so homosexual that one felt a need to interact with heterosexual members of their own sex.{{fact}}

However, the [[Kinsey]] model fails to account for a significant amount of transsexuals, who are attracted to people of the opposite gender as their destination gender.  As a result, [[Transgender activism|transgender activists]] claim that sexual orientation and [[gender identity]] are independent of one another.<ref name="controvery_tmwwbq">http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf</ref>

However, the [[Kinsey]] model fails to account for a significant amount of transsexuals, who are attracted to people of the opposite gender as their destination gender.  As a result, [[Transgender activism|transgender activists]] claim that sexual orientation and [[gender identity]] are independent of one another.<ref name="controvery_tmwwbq">http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf</ref>