Gender Identity Disorders

Abstract

Gender Identity Disorder creates mismatch between a person's biological sex and their gender identity making the exact cause of gender dysphoria unclear. Gender identity disorder may have genetic component. Mismatch between body and internal sense of gender isn't mental disease . The sense of one's masculinity or femininity is disturbed in gender identity disorder. This group includes transexualism, gender identity disorder of childhood, dual-role transvestism, intersexuality. Transexualism is characterized by different clinical features. Primary transexualism has onset in early childhood while secondary transexualism has an onset later in life.