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==Anti-Trans activism==

==Anti-Trans activism==

Radical Lesbian Feminist Academic Janice Raymond ascribed transsexuality to a "Patriarchal [[Fifth Column]]", which is "infiltrating women’s space" and “raping women’s bodies” in her book ''The Transsexual Empire - Making of the She Male''. Her report, commissioned by the Carter Administration, providing health services to transsexuals, effectively eliminated federal and some states' public aid for anything related to transsexual or transgendered conditions.

Radical Lesbian Feminist Academic Janice Raymond ascribed transsexuality to a "Patriarchal [[Fifth Column]]", which is "infiltrating women’s space" and “raping women’s bodies” in her book ''The Transsexual Empire - Making of the She Male''. Her report, commissioned by the [[Carter Administration]], evaluated providing health services to transsexuals; the resulting policy effectively eliminated federal and some states' public aid for anything related to transsexual or transgendered conditions.

[[J. Michael Bailey]], a psychology professor and sex researcher at Northwestern University, published a book called ''The Man Who Would Be Queen'' which sharply disagreed with commonly proposed transsexual models. Dr. Bailey argued that sex changes are motivated primarily by sexual interests and not by the idea of a [[gender identity]] of one sex in the body of the other.<ref name=ManQueen>[http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age] - Alice D. Dreger, Ph.D.</ref>

[[J. Michael Bailey]], a psychology professor and sex researcher at Northwestern University, published a book called ''The Man Who Would Be Queen'' which sharply disagreed with commonly proposed transsexual models. Dr. Bailey argued that sex changes are motivated primarily by sexual interests and not by the idea of a [[gender identity]] of one sex in the body of the other.<ref name=ManQueen>[http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age] - Alice D. Dreger, Ph.D.</ref>