Gender identity disorder in childhood: Inconclusive advice to parents

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-29

  Dreger, Alice ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 59949101833     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (12)

1. KJ. Zucker and S.J. Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psycho-sexual Problems in Children and Adolescents (New York: Guilford Press, 1995).
2. M.L. Brown and C.A. Rounsley, True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism for Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals (San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 1996).
3. K.J. Zucker, "Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adolescents," Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 1 (2005): 467-92.
4. D. Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights (New York: Random House, 2005).
5. TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, "TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation Mission Statement and Goals," 2008, at http://www. transkidspurplerainbow.org/mission.htm.
6. For an exploration of these parenting issues, see Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality, ed. E. Parens (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
7. TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, "TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation Mission Statement and Goals."
8. PL. Vasey and N.H. Barlett, "What Can the Samoan 'Fa'afafine' Teach Us about the Western Concept of Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood?" Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 50, no. 4 (2007): 481-90.
9. H. Rosin, "A Boy's Life," The Atlantic (November 2008), at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children.
10. P.T. Cohen-Kettenis, HA. Delemarre-van de Waal, and L.J. Gooren, "The Treatment of Adolescent Transsexuals: Changing Insights," Journal of Sexual Medicine 5, no. 8 (2008): 1892-97.
11. RT. Cohen-Kettenis and F. Pfafflin, Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2003).
12. For help in sorting out the various "problems" subsumed under a diagnosis of "gender identity disorder in childhood," see N.H. Bartlett, PL. Vasey, and W.M. Bukowski, "Is Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood a Mental Disorder?" Sex Roles 43, no. 11/12 (2000): 753-85.