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	Gender Identity Disorder
		Gender identity is typically male and not female, although sex role identity may range from male gender role, to self-labeling as "fag" or "queer" across settings.
		In terms of atypical gender development in children, the literature deals almost exclusively with the cases of deficit masculine development in boys, including cross gender identity disturbance, gender role behavior disturbance and homosexual behavior development.
		For all the gender disturbed boys, if the biological father or a father substitute were present, he was described in 60% of the cases as being psychologically distant or remote by the other family members.
	www.leaderu.com /jhs/rekers.html (6469 words)

	Gender identity disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gender identity disorder, as identified by psychologists and medical doctors, is a condition in which a person has been assigned one gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex, but compare intersexuality), but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them.
		The disorder is not a symptom of another mental disorder or a chromosomal abnormality.
		Sometimes, even the very existence of a "normal" gender identity or gender role is examined, and often rejected by sectors of modern gender studies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_identity_disorder (1730 words)

	TrannyBoi FtM: Gender Identity Disorder
		Gender Identity disorder can be distinguished from simple nonconformity to stereo-typical sex role behavior by the extent and pervasiveness of the cross-gender wishes, interests, and activities.
		This disorder is not meant to describe a child's nonconformity to stereotypic sex-role behavior as, for example, in "tomboyishness" in girls or "sissyish" behavior in boys.
		Insistence by a person with Gender Identity Disorder that he or she is of the other sex is not considered a delusion, because what is invariably meant is that the person feels like a member of the other sex rather than truly believes that he or she is a member of the other sex.
	trannyboi.com /genderidentitydisorder.htm (2683 words)

	Talk:Gender identity disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gender Identity Disorder - Christian psychiatrist, George A. Rekers, defends the continued inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder in the DSM.
		At the same time, even having an article about "gender identity disorder" (and re-directing "gender dysphoria" to it) legitimates the idea that there is such an illness.
		Gender identity disorder is what psychologists used to call effeminacy in homosexual men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Gender_identity_disorder (1226 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder DSM IV Diagnosis
		Males with Gender Identity disorder who are sexually attracted to males tend to present in adolescence or early childhood with a lifelong history of gender dysphoria.
		Insistence by a person with Gender Identity Disorder that he or she is of the other sex is not considered a delusion, because what is invariably meant is that the person feels like a member of the other sex rather than truly believes that he or she is a member of the other sex.
		For a small number of individuals, the gender dysphoria becomes a fixed part of the clinical picture and is accompanied by the desire to dress and live permanently as a female and to seek hormonal or surgical reassignment.
	www.mental-health-today.com /gender/dsm.htm (3197 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder in Boys
		The biological model attributes gender identity disorder to either the genetic predisposition of the individual or an in utero hormonal influence, where in the male embryo or fetus there may be a higher-than-normal exposure to the hormone estrogen.
		Whatever the cause or causes, gender identity disorder presents a severe problem for those who have it and for their loved ones, robbing affected individuals of aliveness and true self-expression and having the potential to destroy families.
		Decisions about the extent to which to allow the child to assume a gender role congruous to his or her sense of gender identity are difficult and the child and family need support in tolerating uncertainty and anxiety in relation to the gender identity development and how best to manage it.
	home.netcom.com /~eltuna/id4.html (3370 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder \| AHealthyMe.com
		The psychological diagnosis gender identity disorder (GID) is used to describe a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable distress because of their actual sex.
		The distinction between these children and gender identity disordered children is that the latter experience significant interference in functioning because of their cross-gender identification.
		Gender identity disorder is typically diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist, who conducts an interview with the patient and takes a detailed social history.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/topic100586865 (776 words)

	Gender identity disorder - Susan's Place Transgender Wiki
		Gender identity disorder as identified by psychologists and medical doctors is a condition where a person who has been assigned one gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex, but compare intersexual) but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them.
		They question what a "normal" gender identity or a "normal" gender role is supposed to be; and sometimes even the very existence of a "normal" gender identity or gender role is examined and often rejected by parts of modern gender studies.
		Medical treatment for changing a person's sexual characteristics (see Gender reassignment therapy) is not a cure for transsexual or transgender feeling or behaviour, but can help transsexual persons to live in a gender role that is more appropriate to their gender identity.
	wiki.susans.org /index.php/Gender_identity_disorder (1397 words)

	eMedicine - Sexuality: Gender Identity : Article by Shuvo Ghosh, MD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The topic of gender identity is often discussed merely in terms of dysfunction, and the diagnosis of gender identity disorder is a known phenomenon in both children and adults.
		That such gender variance is biologically equivalent in boys and girls, and that it is not necessarily an indicator of gender identity disorder in childhood, is growing clearer.
		Although gender identity is usually female, many XO individuals have significant psychologic stress because of their infertility, their appearance, and, in some, the awareness of their genetic profile, which may make them feel inadequate or incomplete as females.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2789.htm (6437 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder in Children
		The good news is that if the gender identity problems are identified and addressed and if both parents cooperate in the solution, especially fathers, many of the negative outcomes can be prevented.
		If a boy feels inadequate in his masculine identity due to peer or father rejection or a poor body image, identifies with his mother instead of his father, feels that he would like to be a girl, those around him should not pass this off as non-stereotypical behavior.
		It is true that without treatment certain manifestations of gender identity conflicts, such as fantasy fashion doll play in boys or open cross-dressing may disappear by the time the child is 8 or 9, but these coping mechanisms are often replaced by other less overt expressions of an underlying gender identity problem.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/homosexuality/ho0061.html (1947 words)

	Dr. Koop - Gender identity disorder
		Gender identity disorder describes a conflict between a person's physical or apparent gender and that person's self-identification.
		The disorder may affect self-concept, choice of sexual partners, and the display of femininity or masculinity through mannerisms, behavior, and dress.
		The feeling of being in the body of the "wrong" gender must persist for at least 2 years for this diagnosis to be made.
	www.drkoop.com /ency/93/001527.html (380 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder in Children
		Gender identity problems, including cross-dressing, exclusive cross-gender play, and a lack of same-sex friends should be treated as a symptom that something may be very wrong.
		It is true that without treatment certain manifestations of gender identity conflicts, such as fantasy fashion doll play in boys or open cross-dressing may disappear by the time the child is eight or nine years old, but these coping mechanisms are often replaced by other less overt expressions of an underlying gender identity problem.
		Some people may avoid treatment because they believe that gender identity problems are a sign that the child was "born homosexual" and that the parents should simply accept this outcome as inevitable and encourage the child to accept a homosexual identity.
	www.narth.com /docs/fitz.html (1932 words)

	Mental Health: Gender Identity Disorder
		Gender identity disorder is a condition in which a male or female feels a strong identification with the opposite sex.
		Gender identity disorder is a rare disorder that affects children and adults.
		Gender identity disorder is diagnosed when the evaluation confirms the persistent desire to be the opposite sex.
	www.webmd.com /sex/gender-identity-disorder (684 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder and Transsexualism: Sexuality and Sexual Disorders: Merck Manual Professional
		Gender identity disorder is a strong, persistent cross-gender identification condition in which people believe they are victims of a biologic accident and are cruelly imprisoned in a body incompatible with their subjective gender identity.
		Core gender identity is a subjective sense of knowing to which gender one belongs, ie, the awareness that “I am a male” or “I am a female.” Gender identity is the inner sense of masculinity or femininity.
		Children experiencing difficulty with gender identity commonly prefer cross-dressing, insist that they are of the other sex, intensely and persistently desire to participate in the stereotypical games and activities of the other sex, and have negative feelings toward their genitals.
	www.merck.com /mmpe/sec15/ch203/ch203b.html (1203 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder
		Boys with gender identity disorder tend to prefer to dress in girls’ clothes.
		Frequently, people with gender identity disorder complain that they were "born the wrong sex." They describe their sexual organs as "ugly" and may refrain from touching their genitalia.
		Although the genitalia of people with gender identity disorder is normal, those with the disorder may show signs of trying to hide their secondary sex characteristics.
	www.athealth.com /Consumer/Disorders/GenderIden.html (782 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder
		For others, where surgery is not an option, due to personal, family and other issues, their gender conflict may have to be resolved in some other manner that goes some way towards a greater experience of what they believe to be their true gender identity.
		Owing to the stigmatism that persists in matters appertaining to both sexual and mental health, many people prefer not to disclose that a gender identity conflict is an ongoing reality in their lives for fear of rejection or ridicule.
		The purpose of writing this article is to draw some attention to Gender Identity Disorder, as it is essential that people with gender identity questions avail of such professional help rather than the unacceptable alternatives that make living with a fundamental life issue even more problematic than it need be.
	www.desiresonhold.tictacwebsites.com /page/page/2331666.htm (1425 words)

	Gender identity disorder
		The psychological diagnosis gender identity disorder (GID) is used to describe a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable distress because of their actual sex.
		The distinction between these children and gender identity disordered children is that the latter experience significant interference in functioning because of their cross-gender identification.
		Gender identity disorder is typically diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist, who conducts an interview with the patient and takes a detailed social history.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/gender_identity_disorder.jsp (748 words)

	Gender identity disorder, Information about Gender identity disorder
		The psychological diagnosis gender identity disorder (GID) is used to describe a male or female who feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable distress because of his or her actual sex.
		While not all persons with GID are labeled as transsexuals, some are determined to undergo sex change procedures or to pass socially as the opposite sex.Transsexuals alter their physical appearance cosmetically and hormonally, andmay eventually undergo a sex-change operation.
		Gender performance theorists believe gender is best understood through performance studies and theylook at what is revealed from clues such as body position, gesture, facial expression, proximity, voice modulation, speech pattern, social space, clothing, adornment and cosmetics.
	www.faqs.org /health/topics/21/Gender-identity-disorder.html (1403 words)

	Book Review: Gender Identity Disorder
		Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, by Kenneth Zucker, Ph.D. and Susan Bradley, M. Kenneth Zucker is well-known and much-published in the area of gender- identity disorder (GID) in children; his new book, with co-author Susan Bradley, provides some quite useful information.
		To defend the concept that GID is a disorder, Zucker and Bradley must first attempt to define what a disorder IS--not an easy subject, these days, on which to build a consensus.
		In these cases, the GID resolves fully, and nothing in the children's behavior or fantasy suggest that gender-identity issues remain problematic...All things considered, we take the position that in such cases a clinician should be optimistic, not nihilistic, about the possibility of helping the children to become more secure in their gender identity."
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/narth/bulletin01/02.html (1958 words)

	Gender Identity Disorder of Adulthood
		GID is considered clinically distinct from sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias, although some argue for theoretical connections between the conditions.
		Gender identity conditions encompass a heterogeneous group of syndromes with diverse diagnostic and treatment implications, with transsexualism being the most extreme.
		The comprehensive evaluation and treatment of gender disorders is performed primarily by professionals (e.g., psychotherapists, endocrinologists, surgeons) in private practice in a collaborative team approach, as well as in gender identity clinics and special gender programs in some university-based centers.
	www.health.am /sex/more/gender_identity_disorder_of_adulthood (826 words)

	GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER: Contact a Family - for families with disabled children: information on rare ...
		Gender Identity disorders are rare conditions mainly arising from psychological conflicts within individuals between their physically determined gender and their beliefs and perceptions regarding their personal appraisal of their gender.
		It is very important that difficulties that might be related to Gender Identity disorder in children are identified sensitively and quickly and addressed as early in life as possible in order to minimise undue anxiety, unhappiness and vulnerability to teasing and bullying.
		Gender Identity disorders of childhood do not have outcomes that can be easily predicted - but the majority of cases do resolve, and do not necessarily lead to atypical gender identity in adulthood.
	www.cafamily.org.uk /Direct/g17.html (1405 words)

	GID
		More rarely, boys with Gender Identity Disorder may state that they find their penis or testes disgusting, that they want to remove~them, or that they have, or wish to have, a vagina.
		Males with Gender Identity Disorder who are sexually attracted to males tend to present in adolescence or early adulthood with a lifelong history of gender dysphoria.
		In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as preoccupation with getting rid of primary and secondary sex characteristics (e.g., request for hormones, surgery, or other procedures to physically alter sexual characteristics to simulate the other sex) or belief that he or she was born the wrong sex.
	www.webhaus.be /Webhaus/P003/GID.html (2576 words)

	Naomi Coleman on the rise of gender identity disorder \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Gender identity disorder (GID) is when the biological sex of a person does not match their gender identity, but those with GID often describe it as "feeling trapped inside the body of the wrong sex".
		Although GID is a rare condition, doctors have noticed an increase in referrals to gender clinics.
		Although it is still not known what causes GID, it is regarded as a medical condition and one study shows that amniocentesis, which tests for spina bifida in pregnancy, can cause a surge of hormones to the foetus, which in turn, can trigger a hormonal imbalance in the child resulting in GID.
	www.guardian.co.uk /parents/story/0,3605,1021949,00.html (1431 words)

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