What have studies of the personality characteristics of transvestites revealed?
a) They are often fearful and ill-at-ease among women.
b) They do not differ in many areas of personality from nontransvestites.
c) They are generally more outgoing than members of the general population.
d) They have repressed sexual abuse in childhood that haunts them in their adulthood lives.
b
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