Here we aim to categorize sexual orientation in a transsexual population and study changes in self-reported sexual orientation. However, it has been reported that transgender individuals report a change in their sexual orientation over time –. Categories of sexual orientation and changes in sexual orientation can only be categorized because of the notion of a stable sexual identity that is ingrained in the individual. Sexual orientation is determined in early life and usually unchangeable thereafter, although some lesbian women and gay men come out later in life. Sexual orientation is highly influenced by the concept of a sexual identity and refers to “ an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes”. Sexual identity and the concept of the heterosexual and the homosexual are thus categories that follow Western notions of an identity based on sexual desire or acts. However, among other societies notions of identity based on sexual behavior were absent or emerged only in the course of colonialism.
Sexual identity was seen as something ingrained in the psychological and biological makeup of an individual. homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual identity.
Western sexual norms that were established during the modern era based identity upon gender-sex identity and sexual desires e.g.
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