A Gender Identity Project

Steiner, Betty W.; Zajac, Andrew; Mohr, J. W.

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“…In view of this, gender identity clinics have been established which can provide this kind of service and, by concentrating the work in one centre, they can give researchers access to the necessary case material (12). There are now fourteen such clinics in North Am erica, including the one in the Clarke In stitute of Psychiatry in Toronto, which is described in this issue by Steiner et al (29). Research in Canada is not confined to this clinic, as is shown by Martel's paper in this issue (19), and reports from Montreal which have appeared elsewhere (18,36).…”

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The Management of Transsexualism

Hoenig

1974

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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Transsexualism has attracted a great deal of interest, far beyond any practical clinical need as the number of patients involved is relatively small. Extrapolating from Swedish (35) and British (15) figures, about 222 males and 71 female cases in the whole of Canada would be expected, the prevalence figures being one case per 34,000 population for males, and one per 108,000 for females. The interest in transsexualism derives mainly from the light which the study of these rare cases will throw on the general nature and development of gender identity. Why a boy comes to consider himself a boy, or a girl a girl, is hardly ever questioned until the un common deviant from the norm comes to our attention. A better understanding of gender identity, its roots, the factors in fluencing its permanence and so on, will in turn find a practical clinical application in cases of hermaphroditism where the question of gender reassignment quite often arises. Gender Reassignment Surgery Since Hamburger's (11) case of Chris tine Jorgensen the procedure commonly called 'sex change operation' has come to be ^Professor and Chairman,

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The Management of Transsexualism

Hoenig

1974

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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The Management of Patients with Gender Disorders

Steiner¹

1985

Gender Dysphoria

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Heterosexual and homosexual gender dysphoria

Blanchard¹,

Clemmensen²,

Steiner³

1987

Arch Sex Behav

145

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This study investigated why more males than females complain of dissatisfaction with their anatomical sex (gender dysphoria). New referrals to a university gender identity clinic were dichotomously classified as heterosexual or homosexual. There were 73 heterosexual and 52 homosexual males; 1 heterosexual and 71 homosexual females. The average heterosexual male was 8 years older at inception than the homosexual groups. The heterosexual males reported that their first cross-gender wishes occurred around the time they first cross-dressed, whereas the homosexual groups reported that cross-gender wishes preceded cross-dressing by 3-4 years. Some history of fetishistic arousal was acknowledged by over 80% of the heterosexual males, compared to fewer than 10% of homosexual males and no homosexual females. The results suggest that males are not differentially susceptible to gender dysphoria per se, but rather that they are differentially susceptible to one of the predisposing conditions, namely, fetishistic transvestism.

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A Gender Identity Project

Cited by 5 publications

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The Management of Transsexualism

The Management of Transsexualism

The Management of Patients with Gender Disorders

Heterosexual and homosexual gender dysphoria

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