Harry Benjamin Sexual Orientation Scale

Sex and Gender Disorientation and Indecision

(Persons Born Genetic Males, substitute genders for persons born Genetic Females) 


List Of Types :


TYPE 0 
Normal sexual orientation and identification, heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual. The ideas of "dressing" or "sex change" are foreign and unpleasant. Includes the vast majority of all people. 


TYPE I - Tranvestite (Pseudo)

 


TYPE II - Transvestite (Fetishistic)

 


TYPE III - Transvestite - True

 


TYPE IV - Transsexual - Non-Surgigal

 


TYPE V - True Transsexual - Moderate Intensity

 


TYPE VI - True Transsexual - High Intensity

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Original version: Harry Benjamin © 1966, Julian press
Modified version: Anne Curr © 1995, Basic Books

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