Chapter 13

Gender Identity Disorder

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As part of the process of normal gender identity in the family, young children will often try out a variety of sex role behaviors as they learn to make the fine distinctions between masculine and feminine roles. Some young boys occasionally perform behaviors that our culture traditionally has recognized as feminine, such as wearing a dress, using cosmetics or play acting the roles of bearing and nursing infants. Similarly, many young girls will occasionally assume a masculine role-…

Gender Identity Disorder, @Health

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A person with a gender identity disorder is a person who strongly identifies with the other sex. The individual may identify with the opposite sex to the point of believing that he/she is, in fact, a member of the other sex who is trapped in the wrong body. This causes that person to experience serious discomfort with his/her own biological sex orientation.

DSM IV, Gender Identity Disorder

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There are two components of Gender Identity Disorder, both of which must be present to make the diagnosis.

The Merck Manual, Psychosexual Disorders…

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Disorders characterized by a strong, persistent cross-gender identification and by continuous discomfort about one's anatomic (assigned) sex or by a sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex.

Psychology of Gender Identity Disorder and transgenderism discussed by a transsexual psychologist.

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academic perspectives on the psychology of transsexuality are represented by groups like the harry benjamin international gender dysphoria association (hbigda) and are codified in the mental illness model of the dsm-iv-tr as gender identity disorder (gid) and transvestic fetishism (tf). this psychopathology treats transsexuality and cross-dressing as inherently bad things about us. they're not. gender bending, gender queers, and transgenderism show society how uncomfortable it is trying to understanding gender and sexuality.

Gender Identity Disorder in Children

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Psychiatrist Richard Fitzgibbons describes the most common indicators of childhood gender-identity disorder. He explains why this condition is not just a ...

eMedicine; Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

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The study of sexual deviancy began just before the turn of the 20th century as the taboo of discussing sexuality was beginning to lift. Early pioneers included Richard von Kraff-Ebing, Albert Moll, August Forel, Iwan Bloch, Magnus Hirschfield, Havelock Ellis, and Sigmund Freud. Their work was not well accepted, and they were regarded with disdain.

BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: Gender Identity Disorder

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Individuals with this mental disorder are uncomfortable with their apparent or assigned gender and demonstrate persistent identification with the opposite sex. Diagnostic criteria for Gender Identity Disorder(cautionary statement)…

Psychology Today's Diagnosis Dictionary: Gender Identity Disorder

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Gender identity disorder (GID) or transsexualism is defined by strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one's own assigned sex. People with GID desire to live as members of the opposite sex and often dress and use mannerisms associated with the other gender. For instance…

Gender identity disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Gender identity disorder as identified by psychologists and medical doctors is a condition where a person who has been assigned one gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex, but compare intersexual) but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them. It is a psychiatric term for what is widely known by terms like transsexuality, transgender and (subject to debate, but full-fledged GID is present in at least some cases) transvestism or cross-dressing.