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According to Helen Boyd, " Tranny chasers are the big bugaboo in the crossdressing community, because their very existence suggests that crossdressers are not all as straight as they claim to be.

Chasers are willing to give crossdressed men the kind of attention they desire, and that attention ( a drink, a compliment ) validates the crossdresser's experience, and completes the fantasy of feeling like a woman.

" According to Jeffrey Escoffier of the Centre for Gay and Lesbian Studies of CUNY, sexual interest in male-to-female transsexuals first emerged in 1953, associated with the then famous transition of Christine Jorgensen.

It was after expressing transsexualism via surgery became more feasible over the 1960s that sexual orientation came to be re-conceptualized as distinct from gender identity and cross-dressing.

In a survey of men who engage in sex with male-to-female transsexuals, 73 % identified their sexual identity as straight or bisexual.

It is because gynandromorphophiles can identify with any of those terms, HIV prevention efforts and research ought not overly depend on those identities.