Proposed revisions to the DSM V criteria for
Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents or Adults
and the seriously uninformed and illogical Rationale (click on button on the revisions page)
for the proposed changes. We find the paper Cohen-Kettenis, P. T., & Pfäfflin, F. (2009). The DSM diagnostic criteria for adolescents and adults.
Archives of Sexual Behavior, doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9562-y to be exceptionally weak and illogical with its recommendation to replace sexual preference
with age of onset as a specifier for what the sub workgroup refers to as gender incongruence.
A Critique of the Brain-Sex Theory of Transsexualism is
Anne Lawrence's excellent deconstruction of the conclusions published in A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality
Zhou, J. N., Hofman, M. A., Gooren, L. J., & Swaab, D. F. (1995). Nature, 378, 68-70. Transsexuals often cite this flawed study
in support of the ``inner gender identity'' theory and narrative. A critical analysis by Dr. Lawrence shows how this and other studies cannot
be considered evidence of "inner gender identity".
Alice Dreger's essay about Kiira explains her early activism
and her experience at the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Michael
Bailey's site, on the controversy surrounding his book
We like Dr. Bailey's FAQ a lot better than his book and suspect that he has learned a lot
since his book was published.
Read the full text of
Harry Benjamin's The Transsexual Phenomenon
This early writing on transsexualism has some very interesting
research and observations, but the speculation and theory is really
quite inconsistent and not very logically thought out, especially in
Benjamin's poorly thought out taxonomy of transsexuality. Its a good
book to read after reading The Man Who Would Be Queen to see how more
contemporary theories apply to the earlier research.
Read Alex's
comments on The Transsexual Phenomenon here
Primary and
Secondary Transsexualism--Myths and Facts
Anne Vitale has a number of interesting articles on her site.
Quite a good description of the issues when using terms 'primary' and
'secondary'. Here she refers to Blanchard's terms as Autogynephilic
and Androphilic rather then Autogynephilic and Homosexual, but they
refer to the same things.
Excerpts from a talk by Lin Frazer
Fairly interesting discussion by Lin Frazer, a therapist in San
Francisco, describing her clients. The bit on hsts is mildly
amusing. Whats more interesting though is that she describes two
different developmental patterns seen in agp ts, one in early onset
cases where as she puts it "A lot of their psyche is taken up by
crossgender identity" who are more or less asexual (one could
speculate that their autogynephilic orientation is strong enough that
they experiance no normal heterosexual orientation), and one in later
onset cases where the autogynephilic orienation becomes stronger and
their heterosexual orientation diminishes(thats to say, went from
liking women as a man to liking men as a woman). She describes this as
"as he gets older is that the female gender identity, which used to be
a subordinate part, starts taking over".
Sex Reassignment of Adolescent
Transsexuals: A Follow-up Study Peggy T. cohen-kettenis,
Ph.D., and Stephanie H.M. Van Goozen, PH.D.
This followup of 22 teenagers who started therapy and had srs before
age 20 show that they were all very well adjusted and happier after
treatment. We would like a treatment model similar to this to be
recognized as the standard of treatment for transkids.
Dr. Sam
Winter's web site about transgender in Asia is particularly
interesting describing the understanding of transsexuality in
countries like Thailand where the social model of transsexuality is
reversed from that of western culture - hsts transsexuality is
the only socially visible type of transsexuality and agp transsexuality is
invisable. We wonder if it is possible for the two types to exist in
one culture because it seems that one tends to erase the other
Read Shuang's description of hsts in Singapore
here
Respected
Thai surgeon Dr. Sanguan's article on transsexuality
notes:
"Thai M-F transsexuals seeking SRS are younger. They generally look
and behave very natural as genetic women. Because of this, it is
obvious to any non-medical person that they are qualified candidates
for the surgery. On the other hand, most of the American transsexuals
come out when they are much older, many do not pass so well as
females. Therefore it is necessary for them to have the help of
therapists or psychiatrists to help assess their condition and
confirm that they are true transsexuals, eligible for SRS."
Blanchard's presentation:Autogynephilia and the Taxonomy of
Gender, Identity Disorders in Biological Males
Really a very good concise presentation on Dr. Ray Blanchard's research in
recognizing two types of transsexuality.
Nadir Hassan, columnest for The Daily
Northwestern, article: "Attack on Prof. Bailey puts free speech at
risk"
Interview with Michael Bailey on KOOP-FM Austin May 2003
There has been a lot of misstatement about Dr. Bailey's book and this interview clears up
some of the errors.
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