This website is about Harry Benjamin Syndrome, the clinical manifestation of what was formerly known as True Transsexualism (Type VI on the diagnosis table of Harry Benjamin). It is an extremely rare condition [1:100,000] which is not related to the sexual ambiguity of transsexuals in general as the term "transsexual" is used today.

Today, what was previously known as True Transsexualism is considered by medical research experts in this area as an anomaly of early fetal development, which is both neurological and genetic in origin, and therefore an inborn intersex condition (physiological). This is why, following accepted medical naming conventions in regard to physiologically intersexed states or syndromes, the condition formerly known as intense True Transsexualism (Type VI on the diagnosis table of Harry Benjamin), must be named Harry Benjamin Syndrome.
(Read more about the appropriateness of this terminology). Click here to see the original gender scale from Doctor Harry Benjamin published in 1966 by Julian Press, recently updated by HBS International (2009) according to modern medical research in the field.

Since people with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are conventional in their gender identity and expression, like most members of society, these people need a physical rehabilitation of their endocrine system and phenotype in order to function in society as any other average person.

They are not seeking to defy societal norms of gender or sexuality as is the case of transgender and most who call themselves transsexuals today, but only to affirm their sex within themselves.

People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome as a group are naturally opposed to ambiguous groups of sex and/or gender such as transgendered persons and most who call themselves transsexuals. People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are not a part of a supposed continuum of gender ambiguity these others purport.

Despite the confusion in terminology with the old concept of True Transsexualism, persons with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (which in reality is a type of intersex condition) should not be confused with transgenderism and other ambiguous sexual states in general.

People born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome are persons with a binary gender orientation of either Man or Woman, as any other typical person within society. Their identity is woman or man, never "transsexual". Therefore they need a complete physical rehabilitation in order to function sexually and develop socially as any other individual within our society.

People with Harry Benjamin Syndrome repudiate sexual ambiguity and don't feel identified with sexually ambiguous labels like "transsexual" or "transgender" which neither define nor represent them.

Harry  Benjamin  Syndrome  is  NOT  an  alternative  designation  for "transsexuality", but is a designation naturally in opposition to the sexually ambiguous phenomenon known as "transsexuality". ("transsexuality" is a generic and political term whilst "Transsexualism" is a medical term)

Harry Benjamin Syndrome is among the most severe medical conditions that have been known in the history of mankind.