Add to ORKGSpeaker: Sam WinterLive recording from a seminar organized by Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong held on 10 May, 2006This short presentation outlines the experience of being transgendered ("trans") people in Asia. The speaker examines the role that the psychiatric pathologisation of transgender (the idea that it is a mental disorder) may play in the lives of trans people. Recent research in seven countries, most of them Asian, indicates the belief that trans people are mentally sick is strongly associated with transphobia. The speaker proposes the de- pathologisation of transgenderism along the lines of the recent de-pathologisation of homosexuality; specifically, the urgent removal of "gender identity disorder" and related terms...
Transsexualism is considered to be the extreme end of the spectrum of gender identity disorders char...
Background and aims: Gender identities that lay outside of exclusively male and female have been pre...
In the scope of the current revision process of the diagnostic manuals Diagnostic and Statistical Ma...
International audienceIntroduction.– As a part of the development of ICD-11, WHO recommended to remo...
Over the last decade, trans* issues have increasingly gained attention all around the globe. While t...
The concepts of psychiatric diagnosis and gender are both contested, and they are at their most cont...
In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Ident...
Asia (particularly South and Southeast) is home to large numbers of transpeople: persons who are gen...
International audienceBackground: For the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseas...
In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Ident...
In this paper we examine the social and legal conditions in which many transgender people (often cal...
The Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, chaired by Kenneth J. Zucker, was employed by...
Abstract Transsexualism, or rather “gender dysphoria”, is currently a psychiatric disorder. Altho...
Background: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the one allocated to them at bi...
A growing body of empirical research has documented the mental health experiences of Australian tran...
Transsexualism is considered to be the extreme end of the spectrum of gender identity disorders char...
Background and aims: Gender identities that lay outside of exclusively male and female have been pre...
In the scope of the current revision process of the diagnostic manuals Diagnostic and Statistical Ma...
International audienceIntroduction.– As a part of the development of ICD-11, WHO recommended to remo...
Over the last decade, trans* issues have increasingly gained attention all around the globe. While t...
The concepts of psychiatric diagnosis and gender are both contested, and they are at their most cont...
In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Ident...
Asia (particularly South and Southeast) is home to large numbers of transpeople: persons who are gen...
International audienceBackground: For the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseas...
In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Ident...
In this paper we examine the social and legal conditions in which many transgender people (often cal...
The Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, chaired by Kenneth J. Zucker, was employed by...
Abstract Transsexualism, or rather “gender dysphoria”, is currently a psychiatric disorder. Altho...
Background: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the one allocated to them at bi...
A growing body of empirical research has documented the mental health experiences of Australian tran...
Transsexualism is considered to be the extreme end of the spectrum of gender identity disorders char...
Background and aims: Gender identities that lay outside of exclusively male and female have been pre...
In the scope of the current revision process of the diagnostic manuals Diagnostic and Statistical Ma...