A change to the DSM 5 that supports a normative transgender identity with distressed states is recommended in the context of a continuing dialogue between stakeholders.doi:10.1080/15532739.2010.509205Corneil, Trevor A.Eisfeld, Justus H.Botzer, Marsha...
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...
Response of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to the Proposed DSM 5 Criteria for Gender Incongruence. In- ternational Journal of Transgenderism. 2010;12(2):119-23.DeCuypere G, Knudson G, Bockting W. Response of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to ...
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770 Accesses 5 Citations Abstract 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 last two deca...
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 ...
The DSM diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorder in adolescents and adults. Arch Sex Behav. 2010;39(2):499-51319838784PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 8. Park IU, Palefsky JM. Evaluation and management of anal intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-negative and HIV-positive men who have sex with...
I don’t claim that I would have been diagnosed with DSM-5 gender dysphoria, but I had some gender dysphoria as a small child and again as a tween. At the time, it felt very depressing I wasn’t born a boy, but I grew out of what was really a female inferiority complex and now...
The study aims to explore the personality patterns of a group of transgender individuals who accessed an Italian gender clinic to undergo gender affirming treatments, by evaluating both dimensional personality domains proposed by the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and categorical DSM-IV personal...