title: Verbal characteristics of male and female transsexuals.
abstract: Slater's Selective Vocabulary Test was given to a group of 56 male and a group of 14 female transsexuals and the results were compared with those of 15-year-old boys and girls, and a group of normal male adults. It was found that whereas normal males and females have a ratio of gender appropriate words to cross gender words of approximately 2 to 1, in both male and female transsexuals that ratio is more like 1 to 1. The way in which this abnormal vocabulary acquisition may come about is briefly discussed. The factors related to this abnormal learning are not known.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology*; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014706:Verbal Learning