Are Transsexual Self Descriptions distorted by Autogynephilia or Circumstances?
Blanchard, Clemmensen, & Steiner (1985) correlated self-presentation in adult male gender patients with 8 measures of qualities that were either stereotypical or contrary to the stereotypes of classic transsexualism. They found that gender patients systematically distorted their responses to be more like stereotypical transsexuals. This was still true for the sample as a whole and when looking just at the ‘heterosexual’ sub-group. This was only true for 1 measure for the ‘homosexual’ group. The pattern of evidence clearly shows that gender patients’ self-descriptions are systematically distorted to be more like stereotypes of transsexuals. Is this distortion due to autogynephilia or the circumstances? To tease apart autogynephilia from circumstances in explaining systematic distortions by gender patients, we need a complicated but common statistical model: hierarchical linear regression. This type of model has an outcome we are trying to explain. Let’s take an example (chosen for its t
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