The present review focuses on the brain structure of male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM) homosexual transsexuals before and after cross-sex hormone treatment as shown by in vivo neuroimaging techniques. Cortical thickness and diffusion tensor imaging studies suggest that the brain of MtFs presents complex mixtures of masculine, feminine, and demasculinized regions, while FtMs show fem...

INTRODUCTION: Transsexuals are individuals who experience discomfort or anguish caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and assigned sex at birth, so they intensely need to opposite gender. The main purpose of facial masculinization feminization is provide transsexual individual with a face that matches real make them accept, recognize identify themselves looking in mirror, with...

Body integrity identity disorder (BIID), formerly also known as apotemnophilia, is characterized by a desire for amputation of a healthy limb and is claimed to straddle or to even blur the boundary between psychiatry and neurology. The neurological line of approach, however, is a recent one, and is accompanied or preceded by psychodynamical, behavioural, philosophical, and psychiatric approache...

Apart from some general issues related to the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) diagnosis, such as whether it should stay in the DSM-V or not, a number of problems specifically relate to the current criteria of the GID diagnosis for adolescents and adults. These problems concern the confusion caused by similarities and differences of the terms transsexualism and GID, the inability of the current c...

Transsexualism is a complex condition in which the person experiences the inconsistency between the desired gender and their biological gender. Absence of the vagina is devastating in male to female transsexuals. Creation of the neovagina is the main surgical problem in these patients. Historically, beginnings of the neovaginal creation have their roots in the treatment of Mayer-Rokitansky synd...

Assessing various studies on Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), Müller (2009) claims that while psychology and psychiatry may have provided accurate descriptions of this rare disorder so far, they fail to actually explain it. According to her, only neurology can convincingly explain it: it is most likely that this disorder involves a congenital malformation in the brain. This claim about ...

Transgender or gender dysphoria has been defined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), as distress resulting from the incongruence between one's experienced gender and one's assigned gender, along with a persistent and strong desire to be of another gender, and accompanied by clinically significant distress. Adolescents referred for evaluatio...

BACKGROUND Transgender community is marginalized and under-researched. Analysis of peer-reviewed literature in transgender health is needed to better understand health needs and human rights of transgender people. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze global research activity in transgender health published in peer-reviewed journals. METHODS Peer-reviewed documents in transgender he...

Golf and sex are the only two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy. W hat happens inside the human body during sexual intercourse has fascinated artists, scientists, and the public since the start of humanity. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) drew the internal anatomy of a couple engaged in intercourse in " The Cop-ulation " and suggested that connections between the penis, the distal spin...