all child, I notice growing up with him that he had more female friends and that the boys did not like him very much. Many of the boys would often call him "homo", or say "go play with your girlfriends". He was very damaged by all of this. He would usually sit with the girls at lunch, but never the boys. He was often picked on in class with taunts and under the breath innuendoes. He did very well in all subjects in school but did best in art class and theater. His general body language was feminine, the way his hands moved and the way in which he would walk, talk, and even carry his books. I notice that he never tried to change his behavior to please others, which seemed to be gender assigned "feminine behavior". He would also state "I am not gay". His mother actually was going to sue the school to put the responsibility on the school to prevent the students from harassing her son. "Joe" never conformed, to his biological sexual identity being male. He was who he was and everyone believed he was gay. I don't know if he is or isn't "gay" because he went to art school in the city. I think he was having an identity crisis.The third type of person is a person who biologically without a doubt "is" male of female due to society's guidelines of gender. However, this type of person may want to be the opposite sex. They either are kidding or they want to be the opposite sex. Something about it embraces them. This brings to mind a movie I saw the other night, "Silence of the Lambs", by Thomas Harris, when the serial killer believes he was born a female in a males body. These people are sexually dysmorphic, meaning that their self-concept does not fit their sexual biology.He wanted a total sex change and had many psychologists trying to help him. The psychologists did not agree with his desires and he was prohibited from having the operation because they felt he was not psychologically stable. As a result, his fixation with being female caused him...
