Assessing the Utility of Diagnostic Criteria: A multi-site study on Gender Identity Disorder

Summary

Historically an extensive amount of studies have been conducted, in which researchers have studied the patients with issues of gender identity disorder (GID). Gender identity disorders are disorders in which the individual identifies, in an intense and persistent, with the opposite sex with persistent discomfort anatomical sex itself. The background and psychiatric examination confirmed the persistent desire to be the opposite sex. This condition describes a conflict between gender manifest physical or a person and his own self-identity. For example, a person identified as a boy may actually feel ...