caa a22 4500 606232567 CHVBK 20210128101227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0470-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0470-4 Fusion with the Cross-Gender Group Predicts Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery [Elektronische Daten] [William Swann Jr., Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Antonio Guillamón, Santiago Segovia, Beatriz Carillo] Transsexuals vary in the sacrifices that they make while transitioning to their cross-gender group. We suggest that one influence on the sacrifices they make is identity fusion. When people fuse with a group, a visceral and irrevocable feeling of oneness with the group develops. The personal self (the sense of "I” and "me”) remains potent and combines synergistically with the social self to motivate behavior. We hypothesized that transsexuals who felt fused with the cross-gender group would be especially willing to make sacrifices while transitioning to that group. Our sample included 22 male-to-female (MtF) and 16 female-to-male (FtM) transsexuals. Consistent with expectation, those who were fused with their cross-gender group (1) expressed more willingness to sacrifice close relationships in the process of changing sex than non-fused transsexuals and (2) actually underwent irreversible surgical change of their primary sexual characteristics (vaginoplasty for MtF transsexuals and hysterectomy for FtM transsexuals). These outcomes were not predicted by a measure of "group identification,” which occurs when membership in the group eclipses the personal self (the "I” and "me” is subsumed by the group; in the extreme case, brainwashing occurs). These findings confirm and extend earlier evidence that identity fusion is uniquely effective in tapping a propensity to make substantial sacrifices for the group. We discuss identity fusion as a social psychological determinant of the choices of transsexuals. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Transsexualism nationallicence Identity fusion nationallicence Gender dysphoria nationallicence Gender identity nationallicence Gender identity disorder nationallicence Swann Jr. William Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut Gómez Ángel Social and Organizational Psychology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut Vázquez Alexandra Social and Organizational Psychology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut Guillamón Antonio Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut Segovia Santiago Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut Carillo Beatriz Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1313-1318 0004-0002 44:5<1313 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0470-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0470-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Swann Jr William Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gómez Ángel Social and Organizational Psychology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vázquez Alexandra Social and Organizational Psychology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guillamón Antonio Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Segovia Santiago Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carillo Beatriz Psychobiology Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1313-1318 0004-0002 44:5<1313 2015 44 10508