The American Psychological Association (APA) has just given a female-to-male transgender graduate student its prestigious “Award for Distinguished Early-Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.”
“I was the quintessential kid that was set up for homosexuality on several levels. I didn't identify well with my gender, growing up, for various reasons.”
The student has struggled personally with same-sex attractions. In this letter, he seeks to educate his professor about the unmet developmental needs that lay the foundation for homosexual attraction.
My name is Tom and I am in my fifties. For a long time I had this uncertainty about my sexuality. This came from a combination of things: comments from other people, and questions I had about myself.