You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Dear Sir,
In a previous draft of my paper, I gave details about the words transsexualism (Benjamin, 1953), psychopathia transexualis (Cauldwell, 1949),
seelischer Transsexualismus (Hirschfeld, 1923). These details were left out after advice from readers that my paper might be more psychoanalytically orientated. It seems useful to clarify that, when Cauldwell used the words ‘psychopathia transexualis’, he described the condition known today as transsexualism. But when Hirschfeld used the words seelischer Transsexualismus he did not define the meaning of these words and did not describe the condition known today as transsexualism; in this paper he studied ‘die intersexuelle Konstitutin’, and in his works in general he spoke of Transvestiten. It took about ten years after 1953 for the distinction between transvestism and transsexualism to be clearly adopted.
With best regards
Colette Chiland
31 rue Censier
75005 Paris
November 2000