Transgenderism More Likely in Military, Study Finds       (CN) -
Biologically male U.S. veterans were twice as likely as their
civilian counterparts to identify as female, a former military
psychologist told Courthouse News, discussing a soon-to-be-
published study of more than 5 million service members.      No
information has been released indicating whether the subjects of
the study sought sex-reassignment surgery, or more generally
disassociate with the sex of their birth.      The study by
psychologist George Brown follows up on his 1988 paper,
"Transsexuals in the Military: Flight Into Hypermasculinity,"
which relied on interviews with 11 service members who identify
as male-to-female transgender, meaning that they were born as
biological males but identify as female. Many prefer the
umbrella term transgender over the more narrow descriptor
transsexual, which usually implies surgical alteration.      "A
striking similarity was noted in the histories of nearly all of
the military gender dysphorics," the 1