Academic paper in Association for Psychological Science journal: Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal in Transgender Men Authors: Jamie Raines, Luke Holmes, Tuesday M. Watts-Overall, Erlend Slettevold, Dragos C. Gruia, Sheina Orbell, and Gerulf Rieger Department of Psychology, University of Essex; School of Psychology, University of East London; and Faculty of Medicine and Health Services, University of East Anglia Abstract Most men show genital sexual arousal to one preferred gender. Most women show genital arousal to both genders, regardless of their sexual preferences. There is limited knowledge of whether this difference is driven by biological sex or gender identity. Transgender individuals, whose birth sex and gender identity are incongruent, provide a unique opportunity to address this question. We tested whether the genital responses of 25 (female-to-male) transgender men followed their female birth sex or male gender identity. Depending on their surgical status, arousal was assessed with penile gauges or vaginal plethysmographs. Transgender men’s sexual arousal showed both male-typical and female- typical patterns. Across measures, they responded more strongly to their preferred gender than to the other gender, similar to (but not entirely like) 145 cisgender (nontransgender) men. However, they still responded to both genders, similar to 178 cisgender women. In birth-assigned women, both gender identity and biological sex may influence sexual-arousal patterns. Keywords sexual arousal, gender identity, transgender, sexual orientation
Raines has a PhD in Psychology & has researched sexual arousal responses in #TransMen. He got a Gender Recognition Certificate in 2019 & married fellow YouTuber Shaaba Lotun-Raines in 2022. His book 'The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans' came out in 2023.
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