<< Difference Between Old-Time (≈1970–1990) And Contemporary Transsexualism Specialists >>

1 of 4: Old-time clinicians did not adopt patients’ perceptions and viewpoints *as their own*.

2 of 4: Old-time clinicians understood that patients had some incommunicable sensation of “truly” belonging to the opposite sex, and they judged that certain severe, intractable cases would be happier approximating the appearance and social role of the opposite sex.

3 of 4: They did not, however, believe that patients actually *were* the opposite sex in their Platonic essence or in some other regard.

4 of 4: They thought that a caring society could make minor accommodations to transsexuals’ emotional needs, but they did not think that society – including science and medicine – should upend its concept of biological sex just for the greater emotional comfort of transsexuals.