We name and talk of a problematic "transvestism," the desire to dress in the clothes of the other sex. We do not usually name and speak of the strong desire to dress in the clothes of one's own sex. [...] We name and speak of a troublesome "transsexualism," the feeling of being the other sex, the desire to inhabit the body of that other sex. We do not name and talk much about the feeling of being the same sex - the sex we think we are, the sex most of us desire to stay. But does not our feeling relatively comfortable with out sex, and our intense drive to maintain the integrity of our sex, indicate something that needs to be explained, as much as "transsexualism"?
Jonathan Katz The Invention of Heterosexuality
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