Green. R
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Richard Green; Robert
Young
Hand Preference, Sexual Preference, and Transsexualism
Atypical handedness patterns, i. e.,
persons being less exclusively right-handed, have been found previously in large
samples of male and female homosexuals and in small samples of male and female
transsexuals compared to controls. The posited role of prenatal androgen
influencing both cerebral hemispheric dominance and psychosexual development
warrants further study with large samples of transsexuals. 443 male-to-female
transsexuals and 93 female-to-male transsexuals were studied for their use of
the right or left hand in six common one-handed tasks. Both male and female
transsexuals were more often nonright-handed than male and female controls were.
Results suggest an altered pattern of cerebral hemispheric organisation in male
and female transsexuals.
Richard Green
Reflections on “Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment”
1969-1999
Presidential Address
IJT
01/2000 4, 1 http://www.symposion.com/ijt/greenpresidental/green00.htm
[Stand: 01.01.2004]
Thirty years after co-editing Transsexualism
and Sex-Reassignment, this speciality’s first multi-disciplinary text, the
author reflects on changes over the past three decades. Transsexualism, then
esoteric, is now familiar to school children. Previously solid medical
opposition to endocrine and surgical treatment has melted. Origin(s) of
transsexualism remain enigmatic but more evidence is in place for a substantial
biological contribution. More is also known about the variability of sexual
orientation of transsexuals, with extensive experience with males becoming
lesbian women and limited experience with females becoming gay men.
Post-reassignment follow-up data are overwhelmingly positive when pre-operative
patients fulfil the Real Life test. Newer areas of controversial treatment
options include surgery on demand for self-diagnosed transsexuals,
gender-neutering procedures for the “third sex”, and hormonal and surgical
intervention for gender dysphoric adolescents. Legal obstacles in the path of
transsexuals remain in the terrain of employment, health care, marriage and
parenting.
A noteworthy change is the integration of
transsexual men and women into its leadership and the biannual meeting
presentations of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.
Richard Green
Mythological, Historical, and Cross-Cultural Aspects of
Transsexualism
Richard Green
Conclusion To Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment
Reflections at 25 Years
He has written many
papers in the field of transsexuality and currently practices
at Charing Cross Hospital London
