"I interviewed people for a book. This is a free society, and that should be allowed.”

Revenge against a scientist who wrote something some people did not want to hear about the desire for sex reassignment surgery.

The hostilities began in the spring of 2003, when [J. Michael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University] published a book, “The Man Who Would Be Queen,” [in which he] argued that some people born male who want to cross genders are driven primarily by an erotic fascination with themselves as women. This idea runs counter to the belief, held by many men who decide to live as women, that they are the victims of a biological mistake — in essence, women trapped in men’s bodies.