Report of the APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall D. Ehrbar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Gender Variance

Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Byne ◽  
Susan J. Bradley ◽  
Eli Coleman ◽  
A. Evan Eyler ◽  
Richard Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
Gender Identity Disorder ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Association Task

scholarly journals A Short History of a Controversial Diagnosis

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandro Fortunato ◽  
Guido Giovanardi ◽  
Valeria D'Angelo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Clinical Knowledge ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Short History ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
History Of

This work retraces the history of gender identity, a construct which came to light at the end of the sixties, and whose path we will follow up until the present day. In detail, the work focuses on the situations in which a person – belonging to what is commonly known as the trans* world – lives with a lack of correspondence between assigned birth gender and actual gender experience. We will revisit the different diagnoses connected to gender variance – in childhood, adolescence and adulthood – that have been put forward, and examine the different diagnostic classifications that have been used up to now, in order to reach the discussion of this theme in a psychoanalytic field. We will highlight how, alongside pathologizing theories, the psychiatric and psychoanalytic fields have become enriched via theoretical and clinical knowledge that enhance and recognize the depth of the subjective experience of trans* people, without stopping therefore, at a simply reductive diagnosis.

scholarly journals Understanding and Managing Gender Identity Variance in Minors: A Qualitative Research on the Parental Role in Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Iudici ◽  
Gloria Orczyk
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Parental Role ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
New Situation

AbstractIdentities that differ from what is expected of each gender challenge the crystallised binary form of social organisation. Furthermore, having a gender-variant child is an experience that confronts parents with something unknown to them that questions most of their assumptions. In the Italian context, there is a lack of awareness about the population of transgender and gender-variant minors, and what their or their families’ needs are. In the present study, we interviewed the parents of gender-variant minors from Italy and asked them to describe the ways they got to know their child’s gender identity and how they managed such a completely new situation. The interviews were transcribed literally and analysed through discourse analysis. We carried out descriptions of how parents configure this topic and the different positionings adopted thorough their experience of understanding and managing gender variance. Overall, we discussed and promoted parent-children interacting modalities aimed at co-constructing and sharing the process of gender identity development, instead of adopting self-referential or ideological positionings. The present article offers a qualitative exploratory study of gender-variant minors and their families in the Italian context. The limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are also presented.

scholarly journals Multidimensional and Intersectional Gender Identity and Sexual Attraction Patterns of Adolescents for Quantitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassilis Kassis ◽  
Dilan Aksoy ◽  
Céline A. Favre ◽  
Sibylle T.-G. Artz
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional

To identify and compare gender identity and sexual attraction (GISA) patterns using a latent class analysis (LCA), questionnaire data from a cross-sectional study on social resilience in adolescence was conducted in 2020, using a sample of 785 Swiss seventh grade high school students. Following McCall’s complex intersectionality approach, we applied an intracategorical and intersectional approach to reshape, differentiate, and critique the existing binary, heteronormative GISA categorization. To empirically validate the detected classes according to content, we measured the participants’ psychological characteristics with measures of self-esteem, social competence, symptoms of anxiety and depression, dissociation, social desirability, and emotional styles, and related these measures to the respective GISA patterns the LCA detected. The results of our multistep LCA endorsed that heteronormatively binary gender identities are far too simplistic to fully illustrate adolescents’ differences and similarities where gender is concerned. Out of the subsample of n = 785 adolescents (375 identified as “assigned females” and 410 “assigned males”), three significant subgroups of multidimensional GISA patterns emerged for both assigned females and males where differences within the identified GISA groups were larger than those between traditional “boys” and “girls” overall. The LCA demonstrated that the six classes with GISA indicators could be described as low GISA diverse (cis/heterosexual), intermediate GISA diverse (gender identity diverse and/or sexual diverse), high GISA diverse (gender diverse/sexual diverse) for both assigned males and females thus showing that GISA and the psychological state according to gender variance is greater within groups of assigned females and assigned males than between these groups.

scholarly journals Being both: Gender and indigeneity in two Pacific documentary films

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Suzanne Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Gender Discourses

Transgender is a term originating from a particularly Western discourse of restrictive gender identity that struggles to account for diverse gender identities. Several non-Western cultures, however, especially indigenous cultures, have quite different and varied understandings of gender. Diverse approaches to gender have been framed through dominant Euro-Christian discourses as deviant, immoral and inferior—part of the dangerous alternative knowledge of indigenous cultures that colonialism worked so hard and so violently to eradicate. It is only recently that non-dominant gender discourses have begun visibly and vocally to re-assert themselves as viable and valuable alternatives to the orthodox narratives of pathology and deviance dominating Western gender discussions. The development of an alternative and more celebratory approach to gender diversity can be perceived through two notable documentary films from the Pacific: Georgie Girl (Goldson & Wells, 2002) and Kumu Hina (Hamer & Wilson, 2014). Rather than starting from a position that sees gender variance as a depressing problem, these stories offer the possibility of re-appropriating transgender as not only normal, but precious.

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