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Martin Lalumiere is currently working at the Clarke Institute. He has published work with Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey.

Lalumiere has joined the International Academy of Sex Research and the editorial board at the journal controlled by Clarke Institute personnel, The Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Martin Lalumiere, B.Sc., M.Ps., Ph.D. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 
Unit 3 
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1H4 
Tel: (416) 535-8501, 2669 
Fax: (416) 583-4327 
Email to:[email protected] 

Dr. Lalumière obtained his B.Sc. (1989) and his M.Ps. (1990) from the Université de Montréal (1990), and his Ph.D.(1995) from Queen’s University at Kingston (where he received the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal). He is currently a Research Psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Law and Mental Health Program. Previously, he was a Research Psychologist at the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, Research Department (1996-1997), and a Research Fellow in Psychology and Psychiatry at Queen’s University (1994-1996). Most of his time is spent conducting research on the causes of sexual aggression, sexual preferences, and psychopathy. 

Recent Publications 

Lalumière, M. L., Blanchard, R., & Zucker, K. J. (2000). Sexual orientation and handedness in men and women: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 575-592. 
Lalumière, M.L., Chalmers, L., Quinsey, V.L., & Seto, M.C. (1996) A test of the mate deprivation hypothesis of sexual coercion. Ethology and Sociobiology, 17, 299-318. 
Lalumière, M.L., Harris, G.T., Quinsey, V.L., & Rice, M.E. (1998) Sexual deviance and number of older brothers among sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse, 10, 5-15. 
Lalumière, M. L., Harris, G. T., & Rice, M. E. (2001). Psychopathy and developmental instability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 75-92. 
Lalumière, M.L., & Quinsey, V.L. (1994). The discriminability of rapists from non-sex offenders using phallometric measures: A meta-anaylsis. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 21, 150-175. 
Lalumière, M. L., & Quinsey, V. L. (1999). A Darwinian interpretation of individual differences in male propensity for sexual aggression. Jurimetrics, 39, 201-216. 
Quinsey, V. L., & Lalumière, M. L. (2001). Assessment of sex offenders against children (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 
Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L., & Blanchard, R. (2000). The discriminative validity of a phallometric test for pedophilic interests among adolescent offenders against children. Psychological Assessment, 12, 319-327. 
Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L., & Kuban, M. (1999). The sexual preferences of incest offenders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 267-272.

Lisa Diamond is an associate professor of psychology and gender identity at the University of Utah. She was quoted by the Washington Blade on 8 July 2005 praising a study by Gerulf Rieger which claimed male bisexuality does not exist.

“Research on sexual orientation has been based almost entirely on self-reports, and this is one of the few good studies using physiological measures.”

Rieger is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University. He is being groomed by his mentor J. Michael Bailey to engage in “science by press conference,” a way of getting publicity and attention through carefully timed media manipulation.

Dr. Diamond was not involved in the study, which involved the use of plethysmograph quackery.

Lisa M. Diamond website:

http://www.psych.utah.edu/diamond/diamond.html

Benedict Carey. Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited. New York Times, July 5, 2005.

Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science

J. MICHAEL BAILEY (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY), PAUL L. VASEY (UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE), LISA M. DIAMOND (UNIVERSITY OF UTAH), S. MARC BREEDLOVE (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY), ERIC VILAIN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES), AND MARC EPPRECHT (QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY)

Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 17, Number 2)

Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science

Show lessJ. Michael BaileyPaul L. VaseyLisa M. DiamondS. Marc BreedloveEric VilainMarc EpprechtFirst Published April 25, 2016 Research Article 

https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100616637616
Article information 

Michelle DiMeo was on the 2003 selection committee for the Lambda Literary Awards. This committee voted to honor The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey as a finalist for an award in the trans category in February 2004.

Michelle DiMeo works with Pam Harcourt, who is also on the committee.

Michelle DiMeo and Pam Harcourt

Women and Children First
5233 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60640 
773.769.9299 
Fax: 773.769.6729 
[email protected] 
http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com

On 24 February 2004, the selection committee including Sara Look voted to retain the nomination of this book over the objections of transexual people and other concerned parties around the world.

In March 2004, the committee reconsidered and withdrew this nomination.

I will publish any comments or responses from Sara Look regarding this matter as I receive them.

Other resources

Lambda Literary Foundation index page

LINK: Full Lambda Literary Award coverage (by Professor Lynn Conway)

Joseph Henry Press (1992–2008) was a trade publishing arm for the National Academies Press. In 2003 the six people below were responsible for fact-checking, publishing, promoting, and defending J. Michael Bailey’s 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen, one of the most transphobic books ever written.

People involved

Barbara Kline Pope

  • Joseph Henry Press Director. Responsible for the entire vetting and publishing process.

Stephen Mautner

  • Executive Editor. Responsible for all editing and fact-checking. Stated Bailey’s book “was reviewed as a well-crafted and responsible work.”

Jeffrey Robbins

  • Senior Editor. Directly involved in editing and fact-checking. Bailey states Robbins “made my writing better than I could.” (pp. xii-xiii)

Robin Pinnel

  • Publicist. Apart from a timeline she prepared, she says all materials attributed to her were written by senior leadership.

Ann Merchant

  • Marketing Director. Associated with a collection of blurbs for the book that appeared in the press kit.

Suzanne H. Woolsey

  • Chief Communications Officer, National Academy of Sciences. Sent a form letter to anyone who wrote to express concern.

Background

Joseph Henry Press published 112 titles between 1992 and 2008. They are best known for their work promoting sociobiology.

Marketing material

Publisher descriptions (pre-publication + published versions)

Gay, Straight or Lying? Science has the answer [attributed to Robin Pinnel] March 21, 2003

New book on homosexuality, transsexualism and science [attributed to Robin Pinnel] April 2, 2003

Press release (28 April 2003)

Advocate advertisement (10 June 2003)

National Academies Press website (retrieved June 2003)

Stephen Mautner’s open letter

Press release [pdf]

Reviews excerpted for publicity (click authors for more details)

Praise

After I started systematically tracking down the reviews listed in the original Praise (PDF) document, the marketing team started adding others to the book’s webpage as they became available. Most of the praise was written by Bailey’s colleagues. Some wrote more than one review. I tracked down all the authors where possible, listed here as:

Joseph Henry Press credit [Author]

* James Cantor attribution added upon request of American Psychological Association DIV 44, August 2003

** Quotation removed August 2003

*** Simon LeVay quotation removed July 2003, added back September 2003

Selected letters

See also the following letters to those who oversee Joseph Henry Press from prominent scientists and activists:

Comments

Susan Haack’s essay “Science, Scientism, and Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism” which was published in the Skeptical Inquirer back in 1997:

http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/preposterism.html

https://skepticalinquirer.org/1997/11/science_scientism_and_anti_science_in_the_age_of_preposterism/

This sheds some light on the academic culture that encouraged the JHP to publish Bailey’s book. Her thesis is basically that as the academic community adopts business values, it starts to judge scholarship by how well it sells rather than how well it answers questions. I think the following quote pretty much exactly describes how TMWWBQ got published:

“It used to be an important role of the academic presses to publish significant books too specialized to be economic. Increasingly, however, as subsidies from their universities have shrunk, university presses seek to publish books they believe will make money. This too is discouraging, to put it mildly, to the investment of effort in difficult problems. Better, from the point of view of making oneself heard, to write the kind of book that might interest a trade publisher, or at least the kind of book that will get reviewed in the non-academic press. And this too, inevitably, favors the simple, startling idea, even, or perhaps especially, the startlingly false or impressively obscure idea. . . .”

Publisher description

2002 pre-publication version

A frank and fascinating look at what science has to tell us about sex and gender identity written by a leading authority on this very complicated subject. Equally important, the book explores some deeply personal and often strikingly poignant stories of femininity, masculinity, and gender confusion.

2003 to present version

Gay. Straight. Or lying. It’s as simple and straightforward as black or white, right? Or is there a gray area, where the definitions of sex and gender become blurred or entirely refocused with the deft and practiced use of a surgeon’s knife? For some, the concept of gender – the very idea we have of ourselves as either male or female beings – is neither simple nor straightforward.

Written by cutting-edge researcher and sex expert J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a frankly controversial, intensely poignant, and boldly forthright book about sex and gender. Based on his original research, Bailey’s book is grounded firmly in science. But as he demonstrates, science doesn’t always deliver predictable or even comfortable answers. Indeed, much of what he has to say will be sure to generate as many questions as it does answers.

Are gay men genuinely more feminine than other men? And do they really prefer to be hairdressers rather than lumberjacks? Are all male transsexuals women trapped in men’s bodies – or are some of them men who are just plain turned on by the idea of becoming a woman? And how much of a role do biology and genetics play in sexual orientation?

But while Bailey’s science is provocative, it is the portraits of the boys and men who struggle with these questions – and often with anger, fear, and hurt feelings – that will move you. You will meet Danny, an eight-year old boy whose favorite game is playing house and who yearns to dress up as a princess for Halloween. And Martin, an expert makeup artist who was plagued by inner turmoil as a youth but is now openly homosexual and has had many men as sex partners. And Kim, a strikingly sexy transsexual who still has a penis and works as a dancer and a call girl for men who like she-males while she awaits sex reassignment surgery.

These and other stories make it clear that there are men – and men who become women – who want only to understand themselves and the society that makes them feel like outsiders. That there are parents, friends, and families that seek answers to confusing and complicated questions. And that there are researchers who hope one day to grasp the very nature of human sexuality. As the striking cover image – a distinctly muscular and obviously male pair of legs posed in a pair of low-heeled pumps – makes clear, the concept of gender, the very idea we have of ourselves as either male or female beings, is neither simple nor straightforward for some.

Resources

Lynn Conway (lynnconway.com)

Joseph Henry Press (jhpress.org) [archive]

National Academies Press (nap.edu)

Toby R. Meltzer in 2016

Toby Roger Meltzer (born September 19, 1957) is an American plastic and reconstructive surgeon.

Background

Meltzer earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He completed his plastic surgery residency at the University of Michigan. He was appointed clinical professor of plastic surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).

In 1993 he began performing vaginoplasty, and he became widely known in the community. In 1996, he opened his own private practice in Portland, Oregon. In 2003, Meltzer was forced to relocate to Scottsdale, Arizona after a conservative physicians consortium, Symphony Healthcare, purchased Eastmoreland Hospital. Symphony Healthcare filed for bankruptcy soon after, and the entire hospital was torn down.

In 2016, The Meltzer Clinic added surgeon Ellie Zara Ley to their roster of providers. Ley left to start her own practice, after which Nick Esmonde joined the clinic.

See also

My surgical journal (1998)

G’s surgical journal (2003)

Resources

The Meltzer Clinic (themeltzerclinic.com)

Original site [1998-2019] (tmeltzer.com)

Historic links

General pages:

LINK: Indigo Pages on Toby Meltzer http://myria.home.mindspring.com/Indigo/Surgeons/Meltzer/MeltzerM2F.html

LINK: Electrolysis Preparing for SRS by Susan Diskin and Cheryl Naumoff (2002) http://www.tsroadmap.com/physical/hair/zapmeltzer.html

LINK: Vaginoplasty with Toby Meltzer from his commercial site http://www.tmeltzer.com/vaginapl.htm

Related pages:

LINK: Labiaplasty with Toby Meltzer from his commercial site http://www.tmeltzer.com/labiapl.htm

LINK: My Labiaplasty by Andrea James (1998) /physical/labiaplasty/index.html

Consumer experiences (most recent first)

LINK: My surgery with Dr. Toby Meltzer in Scottsdale, Arizona by G (2003) /physical/vaginoplasty/meltzer0603.html

LINK: My GRS With Dr Toby Meltzer by Melanie l’Heuremaudit (2002) http://cloud.prohosting.com/%7Ebenjsynd/women/mygrs.html

LINK: SRS in a Patient Homozygous for Factor V Leiden By Teri; ed. by Anne Lawrence (2002) http://www.annelawrence.com/factorvleiden.html

LINK: Dr. Toby Meltzer: Vaginoplasty Results by Anne Lawrence (1997 through 2001) (note: graphic images) http://www.annelawrence.com/meltzer.html

LINK: My Gender Reassignment Surgery in Portland by Teri, (2000) http://members.shaw.ca/tallteri/grsportland.htm

LINK: Vulvar Reconstruction Post-Vaginoplasty by Alexis (2000) via Anne Lawrence http://www.annelawrence.com/srsrevision.html

LINK: SRS Notes by Janet Bowman (1999) http://members.aol.com/janetxx1/srs.html

LINK: Dr. Toby Meltzer Performs SRS by Anne Lawrence (1998) (note: graphic images) http://www.annelawrence.com/meltzersrs01.html

LINK: My surgical experience by Andrea James (1998)

LINK: The Meltzer Page by raspy (1997) http://www.netdesign.net/%7Eraspy/Meltzer/index.html

LINK: Taking Portlandia’s Hand by Anne Lawrence (1996) http://www.annelawrence.com/portlandia.html

Tuan Anh Nguyen MD DDS FACS (born November 26, 1955) is an American plastic surgeon who serves our community.

Background

Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Texas at Arlington in 1977 and his dental degree from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1981. He earned his medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in 1989. Following a plastic surgery fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University, he went into private practice.

Services

Masculinization

  • Breast Reduction (Chest Surgery)
  • Metoidioplasty (Clitoral Release)
  • Testicle Implants

Feminization

  • Orchiectomy
  • Vaginoplasty
  • Urethroplasty
  • Clitoroplasty
  • Labiaplasty
  • Breast Augmentation (Breast Implants)
  • Body Contouring
    • Waist Cinching (“Hour-Glass Procedure”)
    • Abdominoplasty
    • Liposuction
  • Tracheal Shave
  • Facial Feminization
    • Brow Reduction
    • Cheek Implants
    • Chin Augmentation (Genioplasty)
    • Face Lift (Rhytidectomy)
    • Hair Replacement
    • Jaw Line Contouring
    • Nose (Rhinoplasty)
    • Eye-lid (Blepharoplasty)
    • Ears (Otoplasty)
  • Voice Surgery: Referred to Dr. Jim Thomas, a well-known voice surgeon and long-time consulting surgeon with Dr. Nguyen.

Resources

Lake Oswego Plastic Surgery (lakeoswegoplasticsurgery.com)

Archival information

  • Address: 15820 Quarry Road, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 97035 USA
  • Phone: 503 635-1955
  • Fax: 503 635-1958
  • Former URLs: mdtnguyen.com
  • mdtnguyen.com/m2f.htm
  • mdtnguyen.com/orchiectomy.htm
  • mdtnguyen.com/labiaplasty.htm
  • mdtnguyen.com/vagioplasty.htm
  • mdtnguyen.com/vagioplasty.htm

Nancy Henley was an American psychologist and sibling of the birth parent of notorious transgender troll Kiira Triea aka Denise Magner. Henley’s sibling Dorothy Main Magner was Magner’s birth parent. Magner incorporated aspects of Henley’s work and life into a fabricated autobiography. Magner was also involved in maintaining Johns Hopkins email servers through family connections there.

Background

Nancy Eloise Main Henley was born on October 27, 1934 in Palatka, Florida. Henley began her education at Johns Hopkins after getting married and starting a family, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964, a master’s degree in 1967, and a doctorate in 1968. Henley was affiliated with University of Maryland, Baltimore County from 1968–1971, Lowell Technological Institute/University of Lowell, from 1974–1980, and University of California, Los Angeles from 1980–1994. Most of Henley’s writing was on gender, feminism, language, and the social psychology of power.

Henley retired to Glen Burnie, Maryland and died there from a stroke on June 4, 2016.

My 2007 note to Henley

(Sent to <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>. I did not get a reply to my note or calls.)

Dear Dr. Henley:

My name is Andrea James. I am a writer and activist based here in Los Angeles. You can read about my work at the link below. Like you, my areas of interest include gender and violence (I have done anti-violence projects with Jane Fonda and Eve Ensler as well as Patti Giggans at Peace Over Violence/LACAAW), and I know much of your work covers these topics.

I am writing to you because I am doing some fact checking on an upcoming project, and I am interested in profiling a woman named Denise Tree, who says she is your niece. In the interest of being thorough, I felt it would be prudent to confirm this directly with you prior to publication.

Below is the quotation from Denise that prompted my note (presented verbatim):

“I strongly reccommend _Language, Gender and Society_ ed. in part by my aunt, Nancy Henley. Chock full of good reading about sex dichotymous verbal and non-verbal communications and also how “sex” is hardwired into language itself. 

🙂 Yes it’s afavorite – The Estelle and Dorothy in the dedication is my grandmother and mother.”

Because the dedication in your book Language, Gender and Society lists Estella, not Estelle, I felt I should confirm with you. Denise also says your sister Dorothy lived in the Philippines in the 1950s and was in a relationship with Denise’s father, a Finnish man. She says Dorothy gave birth to her on Clark Air Base in the Philippines and later moved from Finland to Baltimore in the 1960s, where Dorothy married someone else.

If Denise is your niece, I hope you understand that I am merely trying to be as thorough as possible in my fact-checking. I have been doing research for a long time, and my instincts told me I should confirm this information directly with you. If this information about your sister is not correct, I obviously do not want to publish any misinformation, and I would like to get a correction out there.

Thanks for any confirmation you can provide. I will follow up with a call as well, and I appreciate your time!

Sincerely,
Andrea

I did not receive a reply.

References

Rutherford A, Dean K (2016). Nancy Main Henley (1934–2016). American Psychologist, Vol 71(9), Dec 2016, 976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000088

George M (2016). Nancy Henley. Psychology’s Feminist Voices. http://www.feministvoices.com/nancy-henley/

Resources

Social Psychology Network (https://socialpsychology.org/)

Donald Rudolph Laub, Jr. is an American plastic surgeon who has served the transgender community.

Background

Laub got his medical degree at Medical College of Wisconsin, then did residencies at Oregon Health & Science University and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Laub ran Green Mountain Gender Clinic in Williston, Vermont from 1999 until around 2007. William B. “Bill” Nash was the psychologist.

Note: His father Donald R. Laub, Sr. is also a plastic surgeon who was at Stanford University.

References

Archival links and contacts:

http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin

http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin/surgery.html

Dr. Laub Jr. 
3 Timberland
South Burlington, VT 05403
(802) 860-3340

or

Green Mountain Gender Clinic
183 Talcott Rd. Suite 206
Williston, VT 05495
(802) 879-5333
Fax : (802)879-5333
http://hometown.aol.com/grnmtclin/index.html
[email protected]

https://www.wbnphd.com/
Metoidioplasty and FTM Top surgery using double incision

Selected publications

  • Vaginoplasty for gender confirmation.Laub DR Laub DR 2nd Biber S
  • The Post-Modern Phalloplasty: Another Method to Consider.Laub D Jr

Resources

Northwestern Medical Center (northwesternmedicalcenter.org)

Four Seasons Dermatology (skinvt.com)

UVM Medical Center (uvmhealth.org)

Dr. Ousterhout retired in 2014, and his practice was taken over by Jordan Deschamps-Braly.

Douglas K. Ousterhout (born August 30, 1935) is an American plastic surgeon who popularized facial feminization surgery for transgender women through a series of innovative techniques starting in 1982 until his retirement in 2014. For over 30 years “Dr. O,” as he was affectionately called, performed facial feminization for many trans people, including Lynn Conway, Donna Rose, Nicole Hamilton, and myself.

Jordan Deschamps-Braly trained directly with Dr. O for years before taking over his practice. I recommend making Dr. Deschamps-Braly your primary consideration for any work you’d like to have done.

Dr. O purchased a vineyard after retiring and produces Ousterhout Wine.

My experiences

I had facial feminization surgery in 1996, and it still remains the best investment I have ever made. Period. Since I wrote about my experiences, many other women have shared their experiences and results. I’m very proud to have raised awareness of the life-changing potential of this option.

Selected publications

Feminization of the Transsexual (1994)

  • One of his important contributions for consumers was this pamphlet which illustrated the benefits of facial feminization surgery.

Aesthetic Contouring of the Craniofacial Skeleton (1991)

  • Ousterhout edited this medical book written for other plastic surgeons.
facial feminization book

Facial Feminization Surgery: A Guide for the Transgendered Woman (2010)

  • Excellent 185-page consumer overview of available procedures, with many illustrations and images. I highly recommend it for anyone considering these procedures, as it is the definitive consumer guide. It includes an introduction by Donna Rose, who, like me, had life-changing results from these procedures. Both of us are among the many patients who consented to having our results included in the book.

Ousterhout DK, Deschamps-Braly JC. Special Edition on Transgender Facial Surgery. J Craniofac Surg. 2019 Jul;30(5):1326-1327. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000005387. No abstract available.PMID: 31299711

Ousterhout DK. Facial Feminization Surgery: The Forehead. Surgical Techniques and Analysis of Results. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2015 Oct;136(4):560e-1e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000001425. No abstract available.PMID: 25938955

Ousterhout DK. Dr. Paul Tessier and facial skeletal masculinization. Ann Plast Surg. 2011 Dec;67(6):S10-5. doi: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31821835cb.PMID: 22123544

Ousterhout DK. Sliding genioplasty, avoiding mental nerve injuries. J Craniofac Surg. 1996 Jul;7(4):297-8.PMID: 9133835

Ousterhout DK. Mandibular angle augmentation and reduction. Clin Plast Surg. 1991 Jan;18(1):153-61. Review.PMID: 2015741

Ousterhout DK. Feminization of the forehead: contour changing to improve female aesthetics. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1987 May;79(5):701-13.PMID: 3575517

Resources

Douglas Ousterhout (drofacialsurgery.com) [archive]

  • 2012–2014
  • bridges transition from standalone practice to collaboration
  • later redirected to deschamps-braly.com

Ousterhout Wine (ousterhoutwine.com) [archive]

Douglas Ousterhout (drdouglasousterhout.com) [archive]

See also

Douglas Ousterhout: notes from patients

American surgeons

California surgeons

Historic surgeons

Michael Brownstein (born May 4, 1941) is an American plastic surgeon known for his work with transgender and gender diverse people.

Brownstein was widely considered among the best for top surgery for trans men and transmasculine people seeking chest masculinization.

Brownstein’s clients included Chaz Bono and other notable trans men, and he was mentioned in the 2019 film Adam, set in 2006.

Brownstein’s practice was taken over by Curtis Crane following his retirement in 2013.

American surgeons

California surgeons

Historic surgeons

References

Halstead, Richard (October 10, 2015). Mill Valley doctor begins performing gender reassignment surgeries at Marin General Hospital. Marin Independent Journal.

Resources

brownsteinmd.com [archive] 1999–2012

brownsteincrane.com [archive] 2012–2013

Crane Center (cranects.com)

  • Brownstein’s successor, Curtis Crane