and Daisies and Lollypops

These people usually lead normal lives, but this is a "fun" side of themselves they like to express when the mood strikes them. At the end of the day, they can take off the clothing and return to the person they were. Closely related to transvestites are the "Drag Queens/Kings", which are those who follow the behavior patterns of transvestites, but do so for entertainment, not personal reasons.

Falling to the extreme of the transgender spectrum are transsexuals. Transsexuals are those who feel they were born the wrong gender, and seek ways to get themselves right with the way they feel inside. Most transsexuals are diagnosed with the mental condition "Gender Identity Disorder", and many will attempt to change their bodies through hormone therapy and surgeries, to not just change their outward appearance, but to give them the full functioning of the opposite sex. Among the transsexuals, there are two basic subgroups, the female-to-males and the male-to-females, which go off the biological sex of the person. Within these, there are the pre-ops and post-ops, describing whether one has their genitalia altered surgically to be more like the opposite sex.

There are other subgroups of the transgendered community, such as the inter sexed, the non-ops, and the gender queers, but this research is not about them, it's about the people who love them. I will be focusing this paper on the "tranny chasers", specifically on the men and women who pursue myself as a pre-op transsexual woman. During the past two months, I have analyzed their behavior and come up with observational data that may serve to understand this unique form of deviance.

In order to get a good grasp on these people, I did my research in several different areas. First of all, I trolled many of the transgender friendly establishments in Columbus, such as the Union Station and Wall Street nightclubs. For a more diverse group of people, and to gain more data, I did a lot of Internet research by frequenting chat rooms and the websites www.