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The aim of this study is to identify the body image and personality traits of male-to-female transsexual and homosexual persons in Turkey: 36 homosexuals and 52 male-to-female transsexuals were evaluated. According to the Body Cathexis Scale (Secord & Jourard, 1953) transsexuals
compared with controls are statistically more satisfied with their waist, height, eyes, hips, legs, body posture and weight; dissatisfied with their body hair distribution, shoulder width and genitals. Homosexuals compared with controls are statistically more satisfied in height, sharpness
of senses, hips, legs, sexual activity and body posture; dissatisfied in body hair distribution and genitals. It may be interpreted that transsexuals are identified with female body. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1978) revealed that transsexual participants
have statistically higher mean neuroticism (N) scores than do controls.

Space is gendered. Not only is it constructed along a male/female binary (Duncan, 1996), it also emerges within a transgender dimension. Beyond the work of Nameste (2000) on space and who has the right to occupy it and Haberstam (2005) on space and the archive, there is a paucity of literature discussing transsexual space. Yet, learning to read this space is important, for it is within space that transsexual bodies are conscribed to the margins, erased in explosive passion, and allowed to become human (Butler, 2004). Although one can read space in different ways (Agnew, 2005), one does not choose a method to read it because it is true (Rose, 1999), but because it is useful. Therefore, desiring the possibility of deterritorializing lines of flight that disrupt the strata of heterosexual space, it is the purpose of this paper to examine how space, interpreted through the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), functions in the lives of male-to-female-transsexuals.