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- Condition in which a person believes that he or she was born with the wrong
sex's genitals and is fundamentally a person of the opposite sex. An
incongruence between anatomic sex and the sensed gender.
- One of the major groups of sexual and gender identity disorders,
characterized by a strong and persistent identification with the opposite sex
(cross-gender identification) and discomfort with one's assigned sex or a sense
of inappropriateness in that gender role. Although onset is usually in
childhood or adolescence, the disorder may not be presented clinically until
adulthood. Manifestations include a repeated desire to be of the opposite
sex, insistence that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the opposite
sex, a belief that one was born the wrong sex, and transsexualism or
preoccupation with one's primary and secondary sex characteristics in order to
simulate the opposite sex.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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