title: Families of seven male-to-female transexuals after 5-7 years: Sociological sexology.
abstract: Four black and three whilte families have a male-to-female transexual member surgically reassigned more than 5 years ag. The black families were more open than the white in declaring the reassignment within the family and community. Thereby they relieved themselves and the transexual member of a need for deception, defiance, or defensiveness, and they were less scheming and manipulative. Without the anxiety of concealment, they could feel more positive about sex reassignment as a form of rehabilitation. A formal public declaration of sex reassignment, analogous to a declared change of citizenship, would be advantageous in transexual rehabilitation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001290:Attitude; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008396:Maryland; D012919:Social Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D012932:Social Facilitation; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery