The aetiology of transsexualism is not yet clearly understood. Stoller's studies (1970) on psychoanalytical lines postulate that by encouraging every sign of gracefulness, delicacy, unaggressiveness and interest in feminine ways the mother re-inforces her son's advance towards femininity. Hamburg (1971) among others has suggested that hormonal factors operating on the foetal brain during the cr...

Through the case presentation of a diagnostically and therapeutically interesting gender dysphoric individual, the authors wish to address diagnostic problems associated with this controversial category, illustrate dilemmas and emphasize the importance of diagnostic procedures in differentiating between primary transsexualism and other transgender states. Many questions have been triggered by t...

A 19 year old female schizophrenic had a delusion that she was a male and behaved and dressed like a male. She developed intimacy with another girl to marry her. The patient responded to effective treatment of schizophrenia. Further implication have been discussed.

This paper begins with a discussion of the current legal definition of sex laid down in Corbett v Corbett. The implications of this test for three areas of the law, marriage, birth certificates and employment are then examined. Solutions from the United States of America and West Germany are studied and the suitability of similar solutions being transplanted into British law discussed.

497 reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." This may still be sage counsel, but to the list of humanity, reason, and justice should be added a fourth item: this book. was founded in 1976. In the ensuing ten years, approximately 120 gender reassignments have been performed. Motivated by the recent change in the climate of opinion surrounding sex reassignment surgery and by the growing popula...

BACKGROUND To achieve a detailed view of the body image of transsexual patients, an assessment of perception, attitudes and experiences about one's own body is necessary. To date, research on the body image of transsexual patients has mostly covered body dissatisfaction with respect to body perception. SAMPLING AND METHODS We investigated 23 preoperative (16 male-to-female and 7 female-to-mal...

Transsexuals pose dilemmas for the law in (a) defining a male or a female; (b) deciding what partners are legally acceptable for marriage; (c) assessing the best interests of children after divorce; (d) interpreting employment discrimination based on gender or handicap; (e) permitting public cross dressing; (f) reviewing third-party reimbursement for medical procedures that may be deemed cosmet...

Adolescent transsexuals were compared with adolescent psychiatric outpatients and first-year university students to determine the extent to which other psychopathology is a necessary condition for the development of transsexualism. Three areas of psychological functioning associated with fundamental psychological disturbances--perceptual inaccuracy, disorders of thought and negative self-image-...

Sex disapproval syndrome in the form of transsexualism is characterized by incompatibility of biological and psychically-emotional sex. This incompatibility leads to a discrepancy between one's social role and his or her biological sex. The aim of this paper is to present and compare the legal basis for ontogenetic sex judgment in the sex disapproval syndrome in the form of transsexualism in Po...

in the same parish. After this, we listed the names of all the parishes in which the trans sexuals and their controls had lived from the time they were born until i January, i 967. We then determined, firstly, whether the transsexuals showed any particular tendency regarding the density of the population in the places to which they moved. In this we were aided by the fact that every Swedish par...