The scientific community has thus far largely ignored opportunities to conduct needed descriptive and epidemiological research on behalf of the gender community, even when related sexological studies could have provided an appropriate vehicle. For example, neither the groundbreaking Kinsey studies (which addressed other taboo subjects, such as homosexuality, masturbation, and human sexual behavior with animals) nor the recent work of Laumann, Gagnon, Michael and Michaels (which describes itself as “America's most comprehensive survey of sexual behavior”) devoted more than extremely cursory research effort to the gender community. In contrast, the Janus Report researchers did attempt to assess both cross-dressing prevalence and attitudes toward this behavior by non-participants. Their findings indicate that, despite widespread societal disapproval (only 8% of men and 5% of women characterized cross-dressing as “all right” or “very normal”) 6% of male survey respondents and 3% of females reported personal experience with cross-dressing. If this estimate were applied to the population of the United States over 16 years of age (which is estimated to reach 200.5 million by the year 2000); the minimum estimate for the cross-dressing community alone would be 9.02 million persons. If other members of the larger gender community are included (i.e. pre- and post-operative transsexuals, transgenderists, and their spouses and partners) it is likely that this estimate would exceed 20 million. In addition, as most people whom selfidentify as cross-dressing, transgendered or transsexual does so at relatively young ages,the gender community represents an expanding minority group.