This website is about Harry Benjamin's Syndrome, the clinical manifestation of the most intense form 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] that does not relate to the sexual ambiguity of transsexuals in general as the term "transsexual" is used today.

Today, what was previously known as intense True Transsexualism is considered by medical research experts in this area as a physiological condition of birth, which is both neurological and genetic in origin, and therefore an inborn intersex condition (physiological). That is why by following the 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's Syndrome.
(Read more about the appropriateness of this terminology).

Since people with Harry Benjamin's 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 social norms of gender or sexuality as is the case of transgender and most who call themselves transsexuals.

People with Harry Benjamin's 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's Syndrome are not a part of a supposed continuum with these other states of sexual or gender-related ambiguity.

Despite the confusion in terminology with the old concept of True "Transsexualism", persons with Harry Benjamin's 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's Syndrome are persons with a binary gender orientation of either Man or Woman, as any other average person in 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 average person in our society.

People with Harry Benjamin's 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 opposite to the sexually ambiguous phenomenon known as "transsexuality". ("transsexuality" is a generic and political term whilst "Transsexualism" is a medical term)

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