From Oliver Franks
Your report on a gene variant associated with transsexuality called female-to-male transsexuals “transsexual women” and vice versa (2 August, p 14). This perpetuates the myth that a transsexual person is a member of their assigned sex with a mental problem, rather than a member of the sex they identify with who happens to have a physical problem. Every reference to transsexual people with the wrong gender contributes to public doubt in their sanity – and thus doubt in anything they say and do.
York, UK
