1970
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000192852
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Social and Economic Aspects of Transsexualism

Abstract: The syndrome of transsexualism has become widely known in psychiatry and is now clearly distinguished from both homosexuality and transvestism, as well as from hermaphrodism (Benjamin, 1953). Other authors such as Wålinder (1968), Hoenig et al. (1964) and others have given definitions of the syndrome, which might be circumscribed as follows: The transsexualists, although physically apparently normal, are nevertheless convinced that they are ‘inwardly really’ persons of the opposite sex; they claim to ‘feel’ li… Show more

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“…A wide range of psychiatric disorders ranging from depression to psychosis has been reported. For example, an early study by Hoenig, Kenna, and Youd (1970) reported that psychiatric disorders accompanied transsexualism in 70% of the cases studied. Other studies (Bodlund & Armelius, 1994;Hoenig & Kenna, 1974;Roback, Strassberg, McKee, & Cunningham, 1977) found that either a majority or a substantial proportion of transsexuals show no evidence of psychopathology.…”
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“…A wide range of psychiatric disorders ranging from depression to psychosis has been reported. For example, an early study by Hoenig, Kenna, and Youd (1970) reported that psychiatric disorders accompanied transsexualism in 70% of the cases studied. Other studies (Bodlund & Armelius, 1994;Hoenig & Kenna, 1974;Roback, Strassberg, McKee, & Cunningham, 1977) found that either a majority or a substantial proportion of transsexuals show no evidence of psychopathology.…”
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“…(2) self-mutilation in the form of autocastration or autopenectomy was attempted in 18% and accomplished in 9% of one series of adult cases (Pauly, 1965); (3) the most common "treatment" imposed by society for transsexuals is arrest, trial, and imprisonment (Money, 1968); and, (4) a recent study of the social and economic aspects of transsexualism found a high incidence of educational and work maladjustments, as well as a high proportion of criminal and other anti-social behavior (Hoenig, Kenner, and Youd, 1970). A third reason for treating Kraig is that intervention on deviant sex-role development in childhood may be the only effective manner of treating (i.e., preventing) serious forms of sexual deviance in adulthood, since in adulthood such severe deviance appears to be quite resistant to psychological treatment (Baker, 1969;Benjamin, 1969;Pauly, 1969).…”
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“…The case study shows that despite the success of the media campaign mentioned at the beginning of this paper, the transsexual population generally has very limited community support. Although there is little sociological data available on transsexuals, it is not unreasonable to suggest that despite coming from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds (see Hoenig et al, 1970) they are nevertheless disadvantaged in terms of access to political power, legal rights and access to state resources. Austin points out that it is precisely those who are most disadvantaged in society who are least able to organise themselves to win concessions from the state (1984,181).…”
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