However, there has been little meaningful investigation into HBS, with efforts largely confined to particularly undisciplined versions of social science research. The full array of scientific tools lay unappreciated and unused, with scant attention and funding for hard data collection, analysis, experiments, surveys, multiple histories, and in-depth mining of archival information.

As a result, patients and clients with a history of Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) seldom benefit from systematic research specific to their birth condition. In fact, data from counseling and related intake activities most often go unreported or screened from candidate datasets as puzzling exceptions.

 

A case study (or report) can be thought of as an empirical inquiry and investigation into a subject within its real life context. It consists of an in-depth, longitudinal examination of a single instance or event: a case. Rather than using large samples and following a rigid protocol to examine a limited number of variables, case study methods provide a systematic way of looking at events, collecting data, analyzing information, and reporting the results.

 

From this, a researcher may gain a sharpened understanding of why the instance happened as it did, and what might become important to look at more extensively in future research.