A report commissioned by the Michael D. Palm Center, University of California, Santa Barbara

Source: By Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, MSW, FGSA. Dr. Witten is the Executive Director and Senior Fellow at the TranScience Research Institute in Richmond, Virginia.
Publication Date: May 2007

This study reviews earlier research concluding that transsexuals can be a risk to military effectiveness, in part because their transformations entail higher-than-average anxiety and depression. Click here for a downloadable pdf version.