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Gender Dysphoria in Adults: An Overview and Primer for Psychiatrists

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By William Byne, Mary Ann Liebert, Dan Karasic
| Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Introduction Individuals who would likely be considered transgender today are evident throughout the historical record.1 The historical and sociocultural conceptualizations of gender variance, and their evolution within mental health professions over the past century and a half are reviewed elsewhere.2 Nineteenth and 20th century theories of gender variance and views of appropriate treatment were pathologizing and highly stigmatizing to transgender people.2 While mainstream psychiatry is now...
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Gender Dysphoria in Adults: An Overview and Primer for Psychiatrists

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By William Byne, Dan Karasic, Eli Coleman, A. Evan Eyler
| Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Regardless of their area of specialization, adult psychiatrists are likely to encounter gender-variant patients; however, medical school curricula and psychiatric residency training programs devote little attention to their care.
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Age Is Just a Number: WPATH-Affiliated Surgeons' Experiences and Attitudes Toward Vaginoplasty in Transgender Females Under 18 Years of Age in the United States - The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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By Christine Milrod, West Hollywood, Dan Karasic
| jsm.jsexmed.org
Publication HistoryPublished online: March 19, 2017Accepted: February 11, 2017; Received: October 17, 2016;
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Transgender people: health at the margins of society

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By Sam Winter, Milton Diamond, Dan Karasic, Terry Reed, Jamison Green
| The Lancet Verified
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. FiguresFigureThe stigma–sickness slopeReproduced with permission from United Nations Development Programme.62SummaryIn this paper we examine the social and legal conditions in which many transgender people (often called trans people) live, and the medical perspectives that frame the provision of health care for transgender people across much of the world.
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We Must Put an End to Gender Conversion Therapy for Kids

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By Dan Karasic, Diane Ehrensaft
| WIRED Magazine Verified
Leelah Alcorn, a trans youth who endured conversion therapy, wrote in her suicide note, "The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren't treated the way I was, they're treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights." (https://www.wired.com/2015/06/big-problem-outlawing-gender-conversion-therapies/) pieces have been published in newspapers and magazines (including in WIRED) decrying President Obama's statement condemning conversion therapy for LGBT youth,...
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