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.
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.
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
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