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Article: Bioethicist weighs in on Bailey controversy
- Article from:
- Contemporary Sexuality
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Copyright informationCopyright American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, & Therapists Oct 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In 2003, Northwestern University professor J. Michael Bailey wrote The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transexualism, a book aimed at explaining why male-to-female (MTF) transgenders feel compelled to live outside their birth gender.
While most experts believe the reason men switch genders is biological, Bailey argued that some men were playing out erotic fantasies of themselves as women and that's why they made the switch.
The backlash to Bailey's book was swift and largely negative. John Bancroft, who at the time was director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, told the psychologist that his book wasn't "science." A computer ...
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