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Gender
Identity Disorder (GID)
As early as the age of four (Vitale, 1996), some
children begin to realize that the gender their body tells them they are, and
the gender their mind tells them they are don\'t correspond. The sense of gender
and the anatomical sex of a person mature at different times and different
regions of the body (Vitale, 1997b). Sometimes the gendermap, the template
within the mind of a person that codes for masculinity, femininity and androgyny
doesn't coincide with the body of the individual (Vitale, 1997a). This condition
is commonly referred to as Gender Identity Disorder (GID). GID is characterized
by unrelenting confusion or discomfort of one\'s own gender.
The terms
\"sex\" and \"gender\" are often used interchangeably, and this generally causes
confusion. The term \"sex\" will refer to one\'s genitalia, and \"gender\" will
refer to the individual\'s gendermap of being masculine, feminine, or somewhere
in the middle (Vitale, 1996).
Some traits for Gender Identity Disorder are
strong desire to be the other gender, frequent living or being treated as the
other gender, or the feeling that one has the reactions and emotions as the
other gender would. Another characteristic is persistent discomfort with their
birth gender. Some individuals believe that they were born the wrong sex
(Hammond & Wilson, 1996). As one of my friends, \"Wil\" sadly admits, \"I
was born wrong.\"
Gender Identity Disorder begins to affect the individual
in early childhood (\"Gender Identity\", 1999). If, by adolescence, a person
isn\'t certain about their gender identity, most likely they never will be. A
person\'s sense of gender in unchangeable over that individual\'s lifetime once
it is established (Vitale, 1997a). Psychotherapy treatment may help a person be
able to live with the sex they were born with. Sex reassignment is available for
a few cases where therapy doesn\'t end a person\'s desire for sex reassignment
(\"Gender Identity\", 1999).
Sex reassignment is not for everybody.
Individuals must successfully complete a \"real life test\" where they live a
year as their desired sex before the procedure will be performed (Vitale,
1997b). Hormone treatment is begun after the completed trial period. Females
receive androgens, a male hormone, and males receive estrogen and/or
antiandrogens. The surgical procedures include, for male patients, the removal
of the penis and testes, and a neovagina is created. Corrective plastic surgery
of the larynx and removal of body hair is also performed. Female patients
undergo a mastectomy and a hysterectomy, and in some instances, phalloplasty is
performed as well, in addition to removal of the ovaries (\"Gender Identity,\"
1999).
As stated earlier, sex reassignment surgery is not for everyone and
should not be started too soon. In some cases, after the psychotherapy
treatment, individuals decide to live homosexual and sometimes even heterosexual
lives according to their born sex. It\'s not just homosexuals who feel that they
were born the wrong sex. The patient usually must be at last eighteen years of
age before treatment begins (\"Gender Identity\", 1999), although sometimes
hormones are administered at adolescents. Less than 2% of male-to-female
transsexuals had any regrets about their sex reassignment, and less than 1% of
female-to-males had any regrets (Vitale, 1997b).
There are some who believe
that the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder is merely a way of \"curing\"
homosexuality. GID is a way for the parents of homosexual children and their
doctors to cope with the fact that their child is homosexual. Society views
homosexuality as \"wrong\" and \"immoral\". The treatment, back in the 1950\'s
for the \"little gay boys\" (Pela, 1997) was torture, and treatment today is the
still same. Homosexuality was replaced by GID as a mental disorder when it was
removed from the books in 1973 (Pela, 1997). Many fear being discovered, as they
will be ridiculed and labeled sick, uncaring, and even be abandoned be their
loved ones (Vitale, 1997a).
There are some social and support groups in
various cities and countries to help individuals come to term with their gender.
Nashville has one such group, the Tennessee Vals. It is a confidential
organization for transgendered individuals, their friends, families, and loved
ones. It has a secure and anonymous meeting place, for the protection and safety
of the members. Members are comfortable to come dressed as they wish, and any
way they appear is accepted with the group (Tennessee Vals, 2000).
Gender
Identity Disorder is very real. A few friends of mine are affected by it. Some
are currently undergoing hormone treatments and receiving silicone injections to
help them develop breasts and a more feminine figure. One has gotten a name
change and no longer goes by her \"boy name\" at all, and no one even knows what
it is. One friend lives as a male while at work, but in her social life, she
lives as a female. Some \"transies\" live as homosexual males who just like to
\"play dress-up\" every now and then at clubs or parties. Some merely play out
their trans-gender roles by regularly dressing and performing as drag queens.
Although all my friends handle their gender confusion differently, they all have
one thing in common, they are trying to find themselves.
References
Gender Identity
Disorder in Adolescence: Outcomes of Psychotherapy. (Summer 1999). v34 i134
p305. Libra Publishers, Inc.
Hammond, Barbara E. Ph.D. , & Wilson,
Katherine K. (1996) Association for Women in Psychology. [On-Line] Available:
http://www.transgender.org/tg/gic/awptext.html.
Pela, Robert L.
(1997, Nov 11). Boys in the dollhouse and girls with toy trucks. n746 p55(5).
Liberations Publications, Inc.
Tennessee Vals Homepage. (2000, April 12)
Transgender Social and Support Group. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.transgender.org/tvals/index.html.
Vitale, Anne Ph.D. (1997a,
April 2). Notes on Gender Transition: Gender Identity Disorder: A Brief
Description of the Problem. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.avitale.com/Gender_Identity_Disorder_.html.
Vitale, Anne Ph.D. (1997b, July 28). Notes on Gender
Transition: Gender Dysphoria: Treatment Limits and Options. [On-Line].
Available: http://avitale.com/Treatment_Options.html.
Vitale, Anne Ph.D.
(1996, July 22). Notes on Gender Transition: Implications of Being Gender
Dysphoric. [On-Line] Available: http://www.avitale.com/Implications.html.
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