Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Key points
- In 1980, the third edition of DSM included, for the first time, two diagnoses pertaining to gender identity disorder: gender identity disorder of childhood and transsexualism.
- In 1987, DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association 1987) added a third diagnosis, gender identity disorder of adolescence and adulthood, nontranssexual type.
- In 1994, the fourth edition of DSM (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association 1994) collapsed these three diagnoses into one overarching diagnosis, gender identity disorder, with distinct criteria sets for children versus adolescents and adults.
- In contrast to these advances, research on the treatment of GID in children has lagged considerably.
Written and revised by
Gerald Hurowitz, M.D.
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