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Children with Gender Identity Disorder : a Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Giordano, Simona
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Collection:Routledge studies in health and social welfare.
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Table des matières:
  • Children with Gender Identity Disorder A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Transgenderism: Setting the Scene
  • 2 What Is Gender?
  • 3 Gender Identity Development
  • 4 What Is 'Gender Identity Disorder'? Tales of People in Between
  • 5 Available Treatments for Transgender Children and Adolescents
  • 6 Ethical Issues Surrounding Treatment of Transgender Minors
  • 7 The Treatment of Minors with Gender Dysphoria: Legal Concerns
  • 8 Epistemological Issues Relating to Transgenderism
  • 9 Should Gender Minorities Pay for Medical Treatment?
  • 10 Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Index.