Edited sentence: (Baum 2006; Crouch 1998; Wilson and Reiner 1998).In the 1970s, Money's version was widely accepted in liberal academic circles and Dörner's was fiercely denounced, especially in the gay and transsexual communities.The last decade has seen somewhat of a reversal of appeal in similar circles.This turnabout perhaps illustrates the difficulties of investigating these relationships in humans rather than rodents, the complexities of attempting to explain core aspects of the human psyche, perhaps the influence of intellectual and political fashion in the application of scientific knowledge to human affairs