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The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism, by J. Michael Bailey (Joseph Henry, 256 pp., $24.95)
Sexual eccentricity raises difficult philosophical issues for conservatives. On the one hand, we have a core belief in the individual and his privacy. Since no form of activity is more private than sex, our instinct is to let people follow their inclinations, within obvious legal constraints against, for example, the corruption of minors. Further, we all have friends whom we know to be, or suspect of being, sexually odd in one way or another, and we do not want to say or write things that would hurt their feelings. On the other hand, ...