BACKGROUND The number of patients seeking sex reassignment surgery is increasing. Approximately 1:30,000 adult males and 1: 100,000 adult females seek this procedure. Neovaginal-related disorders after sex reassignment surgery are increasingly more common. Vulvar condylomatosis is the clinical manifestation of HPV 6- and 11 infection in biological women. The same HPV-subtypes are associated wit...

Objective: Sex hormones are not only involved in the formation of reproductive organs, but also induce sexually-dimorphic brain development and organization. Cross-sex hormone administration to transsexuals provides a unique possibility to study the effects of sex steroids on brain morphology in young adulthood. Methods: Magnetic resonance brain images were made prior to, and during, cross-sex ...

For people who are transgender, transsexual, or transitioned (trans), access to primary, emergency, and transition-related health care is often problematic. Results from Phase I of the Trans PULSE Project, a community-based research project in Ontario, Canada, are presented. Based on qualitative data from focus groups with 85 trans community members, a theoretical framework describing how erasu...

Depathologisation of gender diversity in the ICD-11 marks a shift psychological services for transgender and nonconforming people. Even though stipulated changes are only practically applicable ever since early 2022, general move towards affirmative psychotherapeutic counselling practice has been noticed 2018. The present paper covers three main models mental health care minorities, namely conv...

Lawrence and Bailey (2008) were critical of our inclusion of scales that were said to be ‘‘unrelated to autogynephilia’’ in our cluster analysis to classify transsexual participants into two groups. These scales, Attraction to Transgender Fiction and Attraction to Feminine Males, were included because in the taxometric analysis performed by Veale, Lomax, and Clarke (2007) these scales were able...