The phrase<unk>  soul enclosed in a male body" (anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa) was introduced in 1868 by Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, not to describe male-to-female transsexuals, but to describe a type of gay men who self-identified as<unk> . Major sexologists in the 19th century picked up the idea that a homosexual was "a female soul in a male body, a condition deriving from an error in embryonic differentiation." Those homosexuals who felt themselves to be female were categorized, "in the interest of scientific precision," as "Urnings" (English uranians).
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