Abstract The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the process of revising its
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), with the DSM-V having an anticipated publication …

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently completed a several year process of
revising the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM …

Public policy documents on gender and health mostly rely on categorical understandings of
gender that are now inadequate. Poststructuralist thought is an advance, but relational …

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the
research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology …

OBJECTIVE: To establish the psychosexual outcome of gender-dysphoric children at 16
years or older and to examine childhood characteristics related to psychosexual outcome …

The categorization of gender identity variants (GIVs) as “mental disorders” in the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is …

This article presents the author's thoughts on gender diagnosis controversies during his
tenure at the DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and the ICD-11 …

Parents of children with gender-variant behavior, while doing their best to handle their
child's preferences and needs, are forced to contend with societal bias and assumptions that …

In this article, I review the diagnostic criteria for Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in children as
they were formulated in the DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and DSM-IV. The article focuses on the …

Introduction Several retrospective and prospective studies have reported on the association
between childhood gender variance and sexual orientation and gender discomfort in …