Objectives. Cooccurring psychiatric disorders influence the outcome and prognosis of gender dysphoria. The aim of this study is to assess psychiatric comorbidities in a group of patients. Methods. Eighty-three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (SRS) were recruited and assessed through the Persian Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I disorders (SCID-I). Results. Fifty-seven...

OBJECTIVES Social categories shape children's lives in subtle and powerful ways. Although research has assessed children's knowledge of social groups, most prominently race and gender, few studies have examined children's understanding of their own multiple social identities and how they intersect. This paper explores how children evaluate the importance and meaning of their racial and gender i...

TO THE EDITOR: Joost à Campo, M.D., et al. (1) reported that a high proportion of subjects with cross-gender identification suffers from comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders and concluded that their sex reassignment will eventually lead to regret. We are sensitive to the issue that patients may regret their sex reassignment (2, 3). However, we have reason to disagree with the authors si...

Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a condition in which a person experiences discrepancy between the sex assigned atbirth and the gender they identify with. Transsexualism is considered the most extreme form of GID and is characterized by the desire to live and be treated as a member of the opposite gender. The prevalence of male-to-female transsexualism in Belgium is estimated at 1 per 12,900 m...