Robert Jesse Stoller (born on December 15, 1924 in Crestwood, New York, USA, in a family of Russian Jews.
In 2010, Richard Green published "Robert Stoller's Sex and Gender: 40 Years On" in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which analyzed the contributions of the book and his research overall in the field of transgender healthcare.
Upon learning this, Stoller recalled the papers he had written and retracted his earlier findings at the 1968 International Psychoanalytic Congress in Copenhagen.
In it, he argued that sex-changes should be utilized as a research technique but only offered to those termed "true transexuals", those who "had been very feminine in childhood, had never lived acceptably in a masculine role, and who had not derived pleasure from their penis (p 251).
"[6] However, these criteria became widely influential and most patients would use the "winning psychosexual history", as therapy shifted from analysis of transgender people to a stepping stone to transition.