(2010). Proposed changes to diagnoses related to gender identity in the DSM: A world professional association for transgender health consensus paper regarding the potential impact on access to health care for transgender persons. International Journal of Transgenderism, 12(2), 107-114....
In the US Janet Mock, among others have blazed the way by being out and public in their defence of being themselves. Recently we’ve seen big names like Lana Wachowski of the Matrix films, Chelsea Manning of Wikileaks fame, Cher’s son Chaz Bono, and Laura Jane Grace of Against Me. A...
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Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld’s Die Transvestiten (1910) and anthropologist Esther Newton’s Mother Camp (1972) exemplify a rich tradition of scholarly thought and analysis on gender variance in the twentieth century.1 Nonetheless, it was only in the las
People who experience intense, persistent gender incongruence, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), may receive a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. It’s a diagnosis that has been widely debated in the psychological and transgender communities because many see ...
Producing the Problem Gender in Medicine: Transgender Health, Classification, and Stratification in the DSM and BeyondHanssmann, Christoph
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In the third section, I compare the world's most important diagnostic manuals, namely the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD) and the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM), i.e. their criteria for 'gender identity disorders' ...
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