“The vast majority of our sample were attracted to men, in most cases to those they saw as heterosexual. The developmental lag here was around 2 years. For 68 percent of our sample, a sense of actually not being male preceded the onset of sexuality. The two developmental milestones were separated by around 3 years. For 76 percent of our sample, a sense of having a non-male mind preceded the onset of sexuality. Interestingly, for most this was after they had begun to develop feelings of cross-gendered identity. Our sample reported the onset of feelings of sexual attraction at a mean age of 14.0 years (S.D.
Only one reported being attracted to women, with another reporting an attraction to other transgendered females.
In “Thai Transgenders in Focus: Demographics, Transitions and Identities,” Sam Winter of the University of Hong Kong: “The vast majority of our sample (nearly 98 percent) were exclusively attracted to men, either straight or male-identifying gays.
