This essay argues that certain print pornography featuring “crossdresser,” “transvestite,” and “transsexual” subjects was, counterintuitively, part of a distributed information care network by for US transfeminine people between the 1970s 1990s. While this genre “transploitation” magazine did reproduce bodies as fetish objects, individuals themselves also used adult bookstore market to distribu...

Wave aberrations degrade the optical quality of the eye relative to the diffraction limit, but there are situations in which having slightly aberrated optics can provide some relative visual benefits. This fact led us to consider whether interactions among aberrations in the eye's wavefront produce an advantage for image quality relative to wavefronts with randomized combinations of aberrations...

Over the past ten years, female-to-male transgender/transsexuality has become far more widespread, both in cultural representations (Boys Don't Cry, for example) and as a legitimate choice for many individuals. As the number of people who transition ftm grows, information about and access to gender reassignment has become far easier to find. Much of this information flows informally through com...

Physicians’ knowledge of therapy and counseling stands among the most important issues in the viewpoints of clients who refer to psychiatric centers. Transsexual patients are very important in this regard. The goal of this research is to study their attitude toward doctors’ empathy. A group of transsexual patients who referred to the Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran, answered the Jefferson ...

There is strong evidence of sex differences in mental rotation tasks. Transsexualism is an extreme gender identity disorder in which individuals seek cross-gender treatment to change their sex. The aim of our study was to investigate if male-to-female (MF) and female-to-male (FM) transsexuals receiving cross-sex hormonal treatment have different patterns of cortical activation during a three-di...