Gender Identity Clinic Biographical Interview

Steensma, Thomas D.; Biemond, Roeline; Boer, Fijgje de; Cohen‐Kettenis, Peggy T.

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“…Furthermore, the peer-reviewed literature does not support the view that desisters and persisters can currently be reliably distinguished as children (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfäfflin, 2010;Wallien & Cohen-Kettenis, 2008;Zucker, 2007;Zucker & Cohen-Kettenis, 2008). Moreover, after transitioning gender in childhood, reverting to the natal gender may entail complications (Steensma, Biemond, Boer, & Cohen-Kettenis, 2011).…”

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confidence: 97%

Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder

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Both the diagnosis and treatment of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) are controversial. Although linked, they are separate issues and the DSM does not evaluate treatments. The Board of Trustees (BOT) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), therefore, formed a Task Force charged to perform a critical review of the literature on the treatment of GID at different ages, to assess the quality of evidence pertaining to treatment, and to prepare a report that included an opinion as to whether or not sufficient credible literature exists for development of treatment recommendations by the APA. The literature on treatment of gender dysphoria in individuals with disorders of sex development was also assessed. The completed report was accepted by the BOT on September 11, 2011. The quality of evidence pertaining to most aspects of treatment in all subgroups was determined to be low; however, areas of broad clinical consensus were identified and were deemed sufficient to support recommendations for treatment in all subgroups. With subjective improvement as the primary outcome measure, current evidence was judged sufficient to support recommendations for adults in the form of an evidence-based APA Practice Guideline with gaps in the empirical data supplemented by clinical consensus. The report recommends that the APA take steps beyond drafting treatment recommendations. These include issuing position statements to clarify the APA's position regarding the medical necessity of treatments for GID, the ethical bounds of treatments of gender variant minors, and the rights of persons of any age who are gender variant, transgender or transsexual.

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Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder

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“…Based solely on the socioenvironmental origins of gender identity and the lower standing of females across much of the world, it would be more logical to expect the numbers of FtM individuals to far exceed those of the MfF when in fact it has up to recently been the opposite. In contrast however, the numbers of people identifying as trans has been rising, the age of identification dropping, and reportedly the numbers of FtM individuals has reached that of the MtFs (Leinung & Joseph, 2020), though the numbers of desisters is also growing (Steensma et al, 2011).…”

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“…Many early-onset trans individuals, anywhere in the order of 70-98% (Steensma et al, 2011), may desist and return to their cisgender life both due to the resolution of difficulties other than sexual dimorphism and natural sex hormone changes in puberty (Gliske, 2019). Others propose, "It would be surprising if the large orientation differences in childhood gender nonconformity disappeared without a trace by adulthood" (Bailey et al, 2016, p. 58).…”

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Sex vs Gender: An unanswered paradox.

Woodhill¹,

Samuels

2021

Preprint

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The origins of bodily sex are well understood, but consensus on any origins for gender is absent. While gonadal sex and sexual orientation are accepted as emanating from genetic and hormonal templates, the existence of gender, when acknowledged, currently has so far originated either from strictly social origins, a nebulous ‘somewhere’ in the brain or from some combination of sources. We propose gender identity emanates from previously unrecognized universal early stable dimorphic sex differences in cognitive signalling relevant to reproduction, and removed from the behaviors widely accepted as a sex/gender mosaic. The neural networks associated with these behaviors thus provide a biological or anatomical location for gender as opposed to sex.

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“…La cuestión probablemente no debería ser tanto diagnosticar si uno es realmente transgénero o no, como ayudar en función de los problemas, incluido el apoyo para la transición. El empeño en diagnosticar si alguien es o no es realmente trans supone un doble prejuicio -esencialista y biomédico-que no se corresponde con la dinámica fluida, no-lineal, del desarrollo de la identidad de género (Pullen Sansfaçon et al, 2020), incluida la desistencia (Steensma et al, 2011). El consentimiento debidamente informado debiera ser un proceso más que un evento (Levine et al, 2022;Wren, 2019).…”

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Psychology and gender dysphoria: beyond queer ideology

Álvarez¹,

Errasti²

2022

Pap. Psicol.

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Gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is today more under the domain of queer ideology than within scientific and professional knowledge. This dominance of ideology translates into important practical consequences such as self-determination of gender identity based on sentiment and affirmative therapy of felt identity as the only acceptable option. As a result, psychological aspects are left out of evaluation and pharmaco-surgical transitions are undertaken that do not solve the problem for everyone. In particular, there is the new phenomenon of those who regret having changed their gender and detransitionists who would like to reverse the process The health professions, including psychology, as well as psychiatry and paediatrics, should claim the same scientific and professional standards for gender dysphoria as they apply to other problems, starting with exploration, evaluation, functional analysis, diagnosis, prudence, attentive waiting, instead of simply assuming affirmative therapy.

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Gender Identity Clinic Biographical Interview

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Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder

Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder

Sex vs Gender: An unanswered paradox.

Psychology and gender dysphoria: beyond queer ideology

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