Transsexualism and Slater's Selective Vocabulary Test

It has been shown elsewhere that transsexual males use a vocabulary which differs from that of normal males. This could be demonstrated by Slater's Selective Vocabulary Test. This test was administered to 56 male transsexuals and the 'd' score - a device to eliminate the influence of I.Q. - was calculated. The normal d score for males is zero and the higher the score the greater is the degree of femininity. An attempt was made to find factors which facilitate this abnormal development of the vocabulary in male transsexuals. In order to do this the cases were divided into a group of high and a group of low 'd' scores, and tested for correlations with a number of factors which seemed likely to influence the vocabulary development. No such correlations could be established.