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2. The Origin of Gender Identity
3. Etiology of Transsexualism
4. Cross-Gender-Identified Children
5. Gender Disorders in Childhood
6. The Spectrum of Gender Identity Disturbances
7. The Meanings of Cross-Dressing
8. Research Methods for the Typological Study of Gender Disorders in Males
9. Cross-Gender Identity in a Broader Context
10. The Management of Patients with Gender Disorders
11. Transsexuals, Transvestites, and their Partners
12. Gender Dysphoria and Gender Reorientation
13. Medical-Legal Issues
14. Transsexualism in the Arts
15. A Personal Perspective
In the decade-and-a-half since I coedited Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment (Green & Money, 1969), remarkable changes have occurred with Harry Ben¬ jamin's "transsexual phenomenon" (1966). Formerly, when writing about this condition in scientific journals, it was necessary to define the term transsex¬ ualism. Now the lay public recognizes it. Even the American Psychiatric Asso¬ ciation acknowledges it as a "disorder," with its inclusion in the Third Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (1980). Although this "elevation" to the status of mental illness may seem a Pyrrhic victory, it is a recognition of the legitimacy of transsexual ism as a source of human suffering. The controversy that surrounded the decisions in the early patient cases to perform sex-change surgery has largely dissipated. The cries of "collusion with delusion," principally from psychoanalysts, have quieted. The dire predictions of psychosis and/or suicide following surgery as the "last psychic defenses are cut away" have almost never been realized. By contrast, many postoperative patients consider the surgery to have been life-saving. Medical centers worldwide have incorporated programs for evaluating and treating persons requesting sex reas¬ signment. Elaborate guidelines for patient management have been developed by an international organization of health care professionals (Harry Benjamin Inter¬ national Gender Dysphoria Association, 1981). Harry Benjamin's child has come of age.
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