This is Steve Sailer's review of the book, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism
"Please note that this book has been the subject of an organized smear campaign among transsexuals, which accounts for most of unhinged reviews you'll see below.
"Professor Bailey is the chairman of the psychology department at Northwestern and probably the leading researcher into homosexuality in America.
"The first two thirds of the book are about male homosexuals, who, as you'll note, aren't complaining. It briskly reviews most of the scientific evidence on male homosexuality, which shows that most of the stereotypes about gay men tend to be more or less true on average. I've studied this issue for years, and everything I've ever seen points to the validity of Bailey's conclusions about male homosexuals.
"Bailey has outraged transexuals by publishing in the last third of the book in highly readable form the evidence that has been mounting for a number of years in scientific journals that the standardized explanation of transsexualism --" 'I always felt like a girl on the inside, even when I was a linebacker, then a Navy SEAL, then the most feared corporate raider on Wall Street' -- is not very persuasive. Bailey suggests that male to female transsexuals tend to fall into one of two categories -- extremely effeminate homosexuals or masculine men who have an odd fetish called autogynephilia, which is a kind of heterosexual narcissism.
"Is this true? Beats me. My main exposure to transsexualism is the wonderful travel writer James/Jan Morris' memoir "Conundrum," which repeats the "I always felt like a girl" party line. It struck me at the time that Morris' descriptions of how he was a military officer, an adventurer, and fathered five children while feeling like a girl on the inside sure sounded bogus, but I hadn't heard at the time the alternative explanation of autogynephilia. Anyway, it would be easy to see why nobody would want to be associated with autogynephilia.
"In sum, a fascinating and informative book that a well-organized pressure group doesn't want you to read. What better reason to read it?"
Poster Comment:
When I drove a taxi many years ago, all the drivers gave rides to transvestites and transexuals. Every transvestite I've met was an extremely effeminate gay guy, and some of them made their living as males prostitutes. Two in particular we called "Neil and Bob," because that's how they made their living. The dispatchers rarely gave out the address; they just said, "Go get Neil and Bob."
Having said that, I'll add I do not understand how any guy would want to cut off Little Willie!