[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

...it was a common experience for us to over-identify with or become overly dependent on our mothers. ... Mom often became our confidant and mentor instead of Dad. But Mom could never show us how to act and think like a man. So it was common for us to view maleness from a woman's perspective instead of a man's. We inadvertently adopted a woman's view of the world.

That makes a lot of sense.

...as children or youth, they had been sexually abused by an older or more powerful person. Usually it was by a male, and in those cases, 96% considered the abuse to have contributed to their developing SSA feelings.

But this makes NO sense. Why would they be attracted to the gender that abused them? You'd think it would be the opposite.

[little jeremiah]

Because molestation of boys often involves sexual pleasure for them as well. It's molestation/seduction.

It's a lot easier for boys to experience sexual pleasure even while being molested than girls. It's crude, but it's the nature of the beast.

[John O]

But this makes NO sense. Why would they be attracted to the gender that abused them? You'd think it would be the opposite.

Please see this

Additionally, (I read this somewhere long ago and can't remember the source but it sure makes sense to me (Stockholm syndrome?)), the abused ends up with a lot of shame and guilt (what did I do to cause this to happen) and as a way of dealing with that shame and guilt you identify with your attacker. (well maybe since my attacker likes boys then it's really not as bad as I thought and maybe I'm supposed to like boys too). Oddly enough this works for both boys being molested by men, which we've seen leads to male homosexual attraction and girls being molested by men, which leads to female homosexual attraction.