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Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management

Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management

Steiner, Betty W.

Paperback

Series: Perspectives in Sexuality

Medical ReferenceGeneral GardeningSexuality

ISBN10: 1468447866
ISBN13: 9781468447866
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 22 2012
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the decade-and-a-half since I coedited Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment (Green & Money, 1969), remarkable changes have occurred with Harry Ben- jamin's transsexual phenomenon (1966). Formerly, when writing about this condition in scientific journals, it was necessary to define the term transsex- ualism. Now the lay public recognizes it. Even the American Psychiatric Asso- ciation acknowledges it as a disorder, with its inclusion in the Third Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (1980). Although this elevation to the status of mental illness may seem a Pyrrhic victory, it is a recognition of the legitimacy of transsexual ism as a source of human suffering. The controversy that surrounded the decisions in the early patient cases to perform sex-change surgery has largely dissipated. The cries of collusion with delusion, principally from psychoanalysts, have quieted. The dire predictions of psychosis and/or suicide following surgery as the last psychic defenses are cut away have almost never been realized. By contrast, many postoperative patients consider the surgery to have been life-saving. Medical centers worldwide have incorporated programs for evaluating and treating persons requesting sex reas- signment. Elaborate guidelines for patient management have been developed by an international organization of health care professionals (Harry Benjamin Inter- national Gender Dysphoria Association, 1981). Harry Benjamin's child has come of age.

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