The<unk><unk> " idea predates modern psychological studies, and was supported by some early sexologists such as Harry Benjamin ("the father of transsexualism"), who revived the idea of Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs that a person might have a "female soul trapped in a male body." Modern researchers classify the common story told by transsexual women about themselves as a psychological narrative, and therefore refer to this idea as the<unk><unk>  narrative". In his book The Man Who Would Be Queen, sexologist J. Michael Bailey gives these statements as a prototypical example of the<unk><unk>  narrative: "Since I can remember, I have always felt as if I were a member of the other sex. I have felt like a freak with this body and detest my penis. I must get sex reassignment surgery (a "sex change operation") in order to match my external body with my internal mind."
Feminine essence concept of transsexuality
Ethical issues in psychiatry
Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy
Controversies about psychiatry
Creativity and mental health
Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories
Effects and aftermath of rape
Biopsychiatry controversy