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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, 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 appear to be attracted to the the gender that they identify as.  As a resolution, modern and typically liberal [[Transgender activism|transgender activists]] have tended to present a model that transsexuals are fundamentally a man or woman trapped in the body of the other, and that their sexual orientation is entirely independent of their [[gender identity]].<ref>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 appear to be attracted to the the gender that they identify as.  As a resolution, modern and typically liberal [[Transgender activism|transgender activists]] have tended to present a model that transsexuals are fundamentally a man or woman trapped in the body of the other, and that their sexual orientation is entirely independent of their [[gender identity]].<ref name="controvery_tmwwbq">http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf</ref>

Critics of this common model for transsexualism, like [[J. Michael Bailey]] point out that such a model fails to properly account for the empirically evidence that transsexuals typically lie in two separate and distinct categories: whereas some males are so naturally effeminate and homosexual that it makes more sense to them to be women, than to continue to struggle and/or fail as men.  These naturally effeminate transsexuals contrasts with all other transsexuals, who are described to have a form of non-harmful [[paraphilia]], which consumes their erotic desires to view themselves as the opposite sex, and eventually motivates them to actually become the woman that they have imagined themselves to be.  These non-natural transsexuals are empirically shown to share a common and frequent rejection from society, family, and friends outside of the [[transgender]] community as they remain notably distinct and different from natural females, regardless of how much surgical intervention, or behaviorial training they seek.<ref>http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/work/dreger/controversy_tmwwbq.pdf</ref>

Critics of this common model for transsexualism, like [[J. Michael Bailey]] point out that such a model fails to properly account for the empirically evidence that transsexuals typically lie in two separate and distinct categories: whereas some males are so naturally effeminate and homosexual that it makes more sense for them to be women, than to continue to struggle and/or fail as men.  These naturally effeminate transsexuals contrasts with all other transsexuals, who are described to have a form of non-harmful [[paraphilia]], which consumes their erotic desires to view themselves as the opposite sex, and eventually motivates them to actually become the woman that they have imagined themselves to be.  These non-natural transsexuals are empirically shown to share a common and frequent rejection from society, family, and friends outside of the [[transgender]] community as they remain notably distinct and different from natural females, regardless of how much surgical intervention, or behaviorial training they seek.<ref name="controvery_tmwwbq" />

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