Editorial: Sexual Identity and Gender Identity: Understanding Difference

Comparing Sexual Satisfaction and Function in Operated vs. Non-Operated Patients of Gender Identity Disorder

Objective: Gender Dysphoria is one of the most important psychiatric disorders whose complications include the problems occurring after sex reassignment surgery. Methods: This study investigates sexual function and satisfaction in patients with Gender Dysphoria, both operated and non-operated patients, from 2011 to 2013. We used a cross-sectional analysis, and by referring to the Legal Medicin...

The Psychobiology of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

Interest in human sexual function has increased in the past decade, in large part as a result of increased recognition of the sexual side effects of various medications, the high incidence of sexual dysfunction among men and women, and the highly publicized success of some treatments for sexual dysfunction (e.g., Viagra for erectile dysfunction). This paper will describe the present knowledge o...

Taxometric analyses of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Taxa are nonarbitrary classes whose existence is an empirical question and not a matter of mere semantic convenience. Taxometric procedures detect whether numerical relations between purported indicators of conjectured taxa bear the hallmarks of true taxa. On the basis of theoretical considerations, the current study tested whether taxa underlie sexual orientation and related measures of gender...

Gender Identity Disorder

Disorders of gender identity.

Disorders of gender identity involve a greater number of disciplines than most other areas of psychiatry.a Endocrinologists, speech and language therapists, and surgeons (ears, nose and throat, plastic and urological) are routinely involved. Further, the field is highly politicised, attracting much public fascination and arousing strong opinions. Disorders of gender identity have probably alway...