A Typical Gender Development Flashcards

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What is gender dysphoria

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Refers to an individual feeling uncomfortable/inappropriate with their sex and gender assigned to them which may lead to Gender reassignment surgery

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What is gender identity disorder

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This is so psychiatric classification for the those Experience gender dysphoria but not inter sex individuals

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What is it psychological explanation about mental illnesses

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Gender dysphoria is a psychiatric problem from childhood traumas or maladaptive upbringing
A study of a gender identity disorder boy and showed that boys developed across gender fancies as the meaning of resolving exciting experience as a result of his mother’s depression

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What is stoller explanation for psychological explanations

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Found that from interviews with the male gender identity disorder sufferers that they had overly close mother son relationship and developed an extaggateratedly strong indemnification with women and confused gender identity

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What is a biological explanation such as transsexual Gene

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Hey examined DNA of 112 male to female transsexual and found that they would like you to have a longer version of the androgen receptor. Which may lead to action of testosterone in the womb which may lead to more feminised brain

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What is the brain sex theory of transsexualism

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This focuses on neurological abnormalities in transsexual brain. It is located in the BStc in the thalamus is two times as large males as females makes times two times as many neurons. Male to female transsexual brains had the same number of neurons in the BSTC as normal females and female to male transsexual her to send me a number of to neurons to normal men

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What is the evaluation to psycho social explanation

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A study it said 435 gender dysphoria sufferers and found no greater incidence of psychiatric problems then in the general population. Gender dysphoria seems unrelated to childhood trauma of dysfunctional families

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What is another psychosocial explanation by zucker

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Studied under 15 boys with concerns about their gender identity. 64% were diagnosed with gender identities phoria also diagnosed with separation anxiety is this shows that there is sometimes a sordid relationship with mother as being important determinant in male to female transsexual

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What is an about it if factor for biological explanations

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Chungnoticed that there were differences in Volume in the BSTCentrance that sexual is not valid until I don’t heard right most transsexual support that their feelings of gender dysphoria immersed in childhood. So changes in the BSTC may be the result rather than the cause of genders is phoria also, transsexual in the original study in to bstc weere receiving them in therapy and it may have been these hormones which causes changes to the BSCC and their gender identity

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