Talk:Benjamin scale

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This page has a blatent copyright violation[edit]

At the time when Dr. Benjamin practised, no transsexual could qualify as eligible for transition if he/she wasn't completely homosexual (relative to his/her birth sex), thus, heterosexual after transition. It was just because at the time it was believed that "obviously a real, normal female should be completely heterosexual," and a lesbian female was perceived as somewhat deviant, wrong or abnormal. So it seemed to doctors (including Benjamin himself) to be absurd to help transition a MtF who was attracted to women. As transsexuals discovered this bias, they started to lie in order to get hormones and surgery. Today most gender clinics presume sexual orientation and gender identity are distinct.

The scale was referring only to MtF transsexuals (transwomen), and male transvestites, since Dr. Benjamin had relatively little experience with FtM transsexuals (transmen).

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Banned editor BenjiBoi[edit]

I'm cleaning up after the mess made by BenjiBoi. It looks like one of his socks made this revert. I was going to undo this, but since I noticed that this article has editors involved in ongoing disputes I'm going to ask here before touching this one. little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer 18:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I too am uncomfortable doing or saying much until after the relevant ArbCom case is completed, but I think my opinion is pretty clear already: All the content is much more appropriate to transsexuality typology pages, IMO, so would be better as a redirect to that.— James Cantor (talk) 21:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]