TENTS. fernism, and the Trans Feminine Remainder ey cual Memoir in the Twenty-First Century erwood in Scandal to Gothic Melodrama Braun iver Anthology and Act 3 of Our Town Klaver sity Press on behalfThe New Woman: Sexology, Literary Modernism, and the Trans Feminine Remainder EMMA HEANEY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY In May 2013 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the fifth edition of the Diagriostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which introduces gender dysphoria as a new diagnostic class. This class replaces the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID), which since 1980 had provided the rubric through which gender nonconforming people attained gender-confirming health care. The GID diagnostic for boys and men took the shape of a life story through which the “boy [with] a marked preoccupation with traditionally femi- nine activities” became the “adult ... preoccupied with their wish to Tive as a ‘member of the other sex” (APA 2000, 576-77). To obtain a GID diagnosis (nd thus access to hormones or surgery or both), 2 patient was required to report such a life narrative expressed in terms of rejection of “traditional” maleness, disgust for “his” penis, and “clinically Significant distress or impairment” (S81) ‘The APA’s 2013, 814) definition of gender dysphoria reflects hard-won changes in the medical attitude toward gender nonconformity by, for instancs, replacing the criterion of identifying as “the other sex” with that of identifying as “the other gender” or “some alternate gender” This diagnostic retains, however, the gatekeeping function of distinguishing true gender dysphoria from simple gender ‘nonconformity through noting the “extent and pervasiveness of gender-variant activities and interests” and requiring that the patient experience clinically sig- nificant “distress and impairment” (458). Herein lies a contradiction: the APA's 1. The legal scholar Detn Spade (2006, 319) describes this imperative o produce a Iephle ‘rang rraive: “The succesful retin of the ansseeual saratve in movtng fer meeting With ‘moticl professionals, nd in sesion aftr sion with couaseory and paychitsts is essential ‘bianing [aborizaton for sex reassignment surgery)" Gere, Vo. $8,No.1_ Apel 2015 DOL 10121900166828-2837272. 02015 by University of Okiahome2 GENRE ender dysphoria diagnostic attempts to address the diversity of gender noncon- forming experience while atthe seme tne reaming the “behaviors, clothing and mannerisms” that characterize each sex (484). Haunting the diagnostic ie the figure ofthe feminine transsexual who throughout the twentieth contury was codified as an ideatfiable social type and installed asthe figure against yhich ‘minine gender nonconforming people were measured. This article identifies the origin ofthis consolidation ofthe singular abstract trans fominine figure in modernist sexological definitions of inversion? Sexol, ogy, as Anna Katharina Schaffner (2012, 60) pointe ou, “depended like no other science, wih the sole exception of paychoanalsis, almost excusively on narra, Sve? But beyond relying on narrative forthe raw mtril of sexologica insight, sexology produced ase of narrative conventions anda stock character, character laed by inverted gender. Ths single Sigate wes distilled from case studies thet