Sexology has been one of the key ways transgender people have been oppressed and exploited in academia.
Early sexologists believed transgender people had a psychosexual pathology (a sex disease). They also categorized trans people based on their sexual interests and behaviors. This led to many bad ideas about the nature of being transgender, including
Psychosexual inversion
Penis envy
Sexual deviance
Paraphilia
Erotic target location error
Gender identity disorder
Gender identity disorder in children
Ego-dystonic homosexuality
Plethysmography misuse
fMRI misuse
See also
Boing Boing (boingboing.net)