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distinguished from the Queens, who do not wish surgery, at point "3" when emasculative surgery has been achieved. This point also serves as the beginning of a division be- tween what appears to be two separate kinds of transsex- uals. One group I term the "gender" type. These indivi- duals are mostly concerned with living the feminine role in society and having a body to match the gender role. They are not particularly driven by sex needs thus they range from 50% sexual effectiveness down to 0, thus overlaping the Asexual area. This only means that there are persons of low sex drive who have a large feminine component in their personalities yet who do not wish to change gender roles and others of approximately the same characteristics who do wish surgery.

The other group of transsexuals I term the "Sexual" type because their motives are primarily sexual. In some of the cases I have interviewed this seems to be and to have been the main preoccupation in their lives since childhood--always homosexual of course. Achievment of emasculative surgery is their big ambition and right after that the "female" type constructive surgery that provides them with an artificial vaginal canal and either hormonal or implantational breast development. They are then "women" and can enjoy their male-seeking sex urges to the fullest. A few of them stop with just emas- culative surgery which accounts for the area between points "3" and "4". The dotted line indicates no clear demarkation between these two surgical procedures. In fact in most cases they are done at the same time. The slanting line showing an increase in male-seeking sexual effectiveness indicates that these people after such sui- gery begin to approach genetic women in their sexual effectiveness. The final point at "5" represents those who succeed in making a satisfactory marital relation- ship as a woman with a normal man. This point, however, is not at the 100% effective point nor the 100% feminine point since such persons could not by the nature of their birth and psycho-physiological development achieve the same status in these regards as a natural born female woman could.

This chart does not attempt to cover the various types of female sexual patterns, which in many ways would be the reverse of what is shown for the male but in other ways would be different. Our concern is primarily