Transgenderism

Diagnostic of transsexualism and gender incongruence are terms to describe individuals whose self-identity does not match their sex assignment at birth. A transgender woman is an individual assigned male at birth (AMAB) on the basis of the external or internal genitalia who identifies and lives as a woman. In recent decades, a significant increase in the number of transgender people has been reported. Although, its etiology is unknown, biological, anatomical, genetic, environmental and cultural factors have been suggested to contribute to gender variation...

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the knowledge and attitudes of a sample of Hispanics in Puerto Rico (PR) toward the transgender community. METHODS: A cross-sectional study addressing Hispanics, aged 21 years or older who lived in PR, was performed from March to September 2021. Participants were invited through online advertisement shared on social media pages. Data were collected via SurveyMonkey and analyzed with Stata 17. Descriptive statistics were employed to summarize findings...

Identity is a widely debated topic. The fact that human beings want to change sex and gender poses a fundamentally societal question. Long marginalized, this reality has become a phenomenon with varying degrees of media coverage. The definition and place of sex, gender, its acceptance and transformation are anthropologically characteristic of the human race and its very nature. The question is that of the limits of the body, of biology and anatomy. We are entering a process of transition through transgenderism, its medicalization and change of civil status...

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to present the characteristics of the convenience sample of the transgender people who registered in one of the sexological outpatient clinics, with particular emphasis on the needs of those seeking assistance. The division into persons with binary and non-binary identities was included. METHODS: A statistical analysis of the data obtained from the medical records of a group of 49 patients, including 35 patients declaring binary identity and 14 patients declaring non-binary identity, was conducted...

INTRODUCTION: Transgenderism is a condition regarding the gender identity of an individual where their psychological gender is discordant with their anatomic gender. For patients transitioning from Male to Female, voice changes are created predominantly with voice therapy, with vocal surgery as an adjunct if the patient desires it. A common surgical technique is the Wendler Glottoplasty. A CO2 laser is used to de-epithelialize the anterior third of the vocal folds and the anterior one-third of the folds are sutured together...

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The history of transgenderism is reaching a new turning point. From the medical beginnings of the 1940's to the real innovations of the last decade, surgery can, more than ever, contribute to the gender reassignment process. This article will firstly describe the evolution of the transgender demand, and will then review the specificities of male and female facial anatomy. We will conclude by defining the maxillofacial surgical field and the new role of the reference center at the University Hospital of Liège in this promise of treatment, that is both intimate and innovative...

The meta-theoretical resource of critical realism (CR) is deployed in order to examine transgender and healthcare. CR treads a middle way between positivism and postmodernism, within post-Popperian discussions of the philosophy of natural and social science. It focuses on the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a phenomenon under investigation. In this case, the focus is on the emergence of debates about transgenderism in healthcare. These have been technological (about the prospect of biomedical solutions to personal problems) and ideological, with the enlarged salience of identity politics and our currently unresolved "culture wars...

Attempts at unifying the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for transgender individuals experiencing gender dysphoria were first undertaken in Poland in the 1980s. Since then, there has been a change in the perception of transgenderism, almost paradigmatic, expressed in subsequent editions of the diagnostic systems (DSM, ICD), which is also associated with the fundamental changes in the principles of conducting trans-specific healthcare. This triggered the need to formulate recommendations for specialists practicing in Poland, which would at least partly reflect the evolution of views and guidelines on clinical care in transgender adults seeking help due to gender dysphoria...

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OBJECTIVE: to analyze teachers' conceptions about transgenderity in childhood and to identify the possibilities and limits of working with these children in the school context. METHOD: a qualitative research study, carried out with 23 teachers from two municipal elementary schools. Semi-structured interviews were used to produce empirical material. As an analytical resource, the content analysis technique, thematic modality, was used. RESULTS: six thematic categories emerged in the set of empirical material: There is transgenderity in childhood; The construction of gender identity and roles in childhood; The experience of trans children in the school context; Trans children: How to deal with?; Discussing the differences in the classroom: Is this the way?; and Dilemmas of school and family interaction...

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OBJECTIVE: To study the feasibility of in vitro maturation of ovarian tissue oocytes for fertility preservation in transgender men on testosterone treatment. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study SETTING: University hospital PATIENT(S): Eighty-three transgender men enrolled from November 2015 to January 2019 INTERVENTION(S): In vitro maturation of cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) harvested at the time of gender confirmation surgery, and fertilization through intracytoplasmic sperm injection...

This article is a reasoned response to the article by Timothy F. Murphy, recently published in the prestigious journal Bioethics , on the supposed opposition between the views of the Catholic Church and what he calls "contemporary science" in relation to certain anthropological issues linked to the gender perspective. To point to "the Vatican" as anchored in an unscientific and anachronistic position, using the term contemporary science to which he attributes a unanimous representation of current scientific thinking on the subject is, in our view, unfounded and completely unacceptable...

Changes of sex ratio and prevalence in transgender teenagers over the past 15 years Abstract. Evaluation of authors' 1434 expert opinions from 2005-2019 on transgender applicants (420 younger than 20 years old) for legal change of name and gender according to German "Law on Transsexuality" showed (1) in teenage applicants substantial changes of sex ratio from 2:1 to 10:1 in favour of transmales; (2) while prevalence of teenage transfemales during this period remained unchanged, prevalence of transmales rose significantly...

INTRODUCTION: Interventions aimed at changing knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of resident physicians and medical students have been made to incite a significant positive increase in attitudes, comfort, and knowledge toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, as well as increased levels of competency among participants. AIM: To use insights from the attitudes of medical students toward transgender people and demonstrate that adding lectures on transgenderism would make the medical school curricula more comprehensive and trans-inclusive by improving overall attitudes toward the LGBT community...

"If One Feels Better Like That …". Adolescent Sibling Relationship in the Context of Transgender Development A transgender development in youth can influence the relationship of concerned youth and their siblings. While in most surveys, the focus lies on transgender adolescents, both sides shall be interviewed here to capture the situation of siblings and to relate the results. For this purpose, guide interviews with ten transgender adolescents and twelve of their siblings were analysed in accordance to Grounded Theory...

Using a multidimensional measure of gender identity for youths, Potter and colleagues elegantly investigated the prevalence of gender diversity and associated mental health problems in a large sample of young adolescents. The authors address an important need of studies within the behavioral and medical sciences to consider more carefully variations in a person's subjective experience of gender. Their study shows that individual differences in gender identity significantly relate to adolescent mental health problems...

The number of people presenting at gender clinics is increasing worldwide. Many people undergo a gender transition with subsequent improved psychological well-being (Paediatrics, 2014, 134, 696). However, some people choose to stop this journey, 'desisters', or to reverse their transition, 'detransitioners'. It has been suggested that some professionals and activists are reluctant to acknowledge the existence of desisters and detransitioners, possibly fearing that they may delegitimize persisters' experiences (International Journal of Transgenderism, 2018, 19, 231)...

Transsexual persons often undergo the process of transition, which is a long, multi-stage procedure. One of the stages, often final, is the lawful reassignment of sex, which is often perceived by transsexual individuals as more meaningful than the medical interventions. The aim of the study was to analyze the current legal situation of transsexual individuals in Poland. An in-depth review of legal documents and their association with current medical knowledge on transsexualism together with a presentation of solutions established worldwide were performed...