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Gender identity
Gender Dysphoria |
One’s psychological sense of being female or being male.
A type of psychological disorder in which people experience significant personal distress or impaired functioning as a result of a conflict between their anatomic sex and their gender identity. |
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Transgender identity |
The psychological sense of belonging to one gender while possessing the sexual organs of the other. |
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Gender Dysphoria |
• Not all people with transgender identity have gender dysphoria or any other diagnosable disorder. • Although the prevalence rate of gender dysphoria is unknown, the disorder is certainly uncommon. • It is believed to often begin in childhood. • GID takes many paths. It can end by adolescence, with the child’s becoming more accepting of her or his gender identity, or it may persist into adolescence or adulthood. |
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Sex Reassignment Surgery |
• People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery can participate in sexual activity and even reach orgasm, but they cannot conceive or bear children because they lack the internal reproductive organs of their newly reconstructed sex. • Investigators generally find positive postoperative adjustment of transsexuals • Men seeking sex-reassignment outnumber women by perhaps 3 to 1. |
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Psychodynamic Perspectives |
• Psychodynamic theorists point to extremely close mother–son relationships, empty relationships with parents, and fathers who were absent or detached • These family circumstances may foster strong identification with the mother in young males, leading to a reversal of expected gender roles and identity. • Girls with weak, ineffectual mothers and strong masculine fathers may overly identify with their fathers and develop a psychological sense of themselves as “little men.” |
