Are Gay People Being Turned Transgender? (No)

In 1886, German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing wrote one of the first works of what we’d currently call sexology, Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (or Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study). The book is where the terms “sadist” and “masochist” were coined, the term sadist being named after French novelist Marquis de Sade and the term masochist being named after Austrian…