AIM The aim of the paper was to present the basic data about delusions of sex change and body dysmorphic disorder and describe two cases of patients with these symptoms and paranoid schizophrenia. METHOD Analysis of the course of illness and medical documentation. RESULTS Coexisting of transsexualism and schizophrenia cause a lot of doubt. Moreover, delusions of sex change are probably more...

Over the years, the DSM diagnosis of gender identity disorder (and its predecessors gender identity disorder of childhood [GIDC] and transsexualism) has attracted controversy as a mental disorder, for its diagnostic criteria, as a target of therapeutic intervention, and for its relationship to a homosexual sexual orientation. Another point of controversy is the claim that the diagnosis of GIDC ...

The lack of legislations regulate legal issues transgenderism, transsexuality and sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in Egypt, lead to the raise many questions regarding legality conducting SRS its consequences, this paper aims highlight occurred Egypt determine approach taken by Judicial authorities dealing with matter provides a critical analysis related rulings issued Egyptian courts, given that...

The Paper is divided into two parts; at first: The role of endocrine system on anatomical development of internal and external sexual organs; Second part discusses the Endocrine View point of gender identity gender role, impotence, frigidity and other psychosexual disorders like homosexualism and transsexualism. 

In 2003, psychology professor and sex researcher J. Michael Bailey published a book entitled The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. The book's portrayal of male-to-female (MTF) transsexualism, based on a theory developed by sexologist Ray Blanchard, outraged some transgender activists. They believed the book to be typical of much of the biomedical literatu...

UNLABELLED Transsexualism is considered to be an extreme end in a large group of gender identity disorders. Two main types of transsexualism are identified: male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM). Transsexual persons have a feeling of being incarcerated in a foreign body and therefore they wish to change their sex by hormone therapy and surgical treatment. Breast reduction usually is the...

Atypical prenatal hormone exposure could be a factor in the development of transsexualism. There is evidence that the 2nd and 4th digit ratio (2D:4D) associates negatively with prenatal testosterone and positively with estrogens. The aim was to assess the difference in 2D:4D between female to male transsexuals (FMT) and male to female transsexuals (MFT) and controls. We examined 42 MFT, 38 FMT,...

TRANSSEXUALISM may be defined as a disturbance of gender identity in which the patient's biological sex is incongruent with their psychological sex, and they persistantly seek to live as a member of the opposite sex, that is, in keeping with their desired or psychological sexual role. This is a descriptive study of 32 patients who were referred to the Department of Mental Health, Queen's Univrs...

This essay aims to contribute the contemporary transgender debate by using Lili Elbe’s account of her life in Man Into Woman (1933), David Ebershoff’s novel The Danish Girl (2000) and Tom Hooper’s film adaptation latter (2015) as case studies. All three narratives explore biologism medicalization being closely aligned with Frankenstein metaphor terms conceptualization trans bodies. However, thi...

Social exclusion and legal marginalization are important determinants of health outcomes for people who use illicit drugs, sex workers, and persons who face criminal penalties because of homosexuality or transgenderism. Incarceration may add to the health risks associated with police repression and discrimination for these persons. Access to legal services may be essential to positive health ou...