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Trans-identity - the Standards of Diagnostics and Treatment

Author(s) -

H. Gessmann

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

psychological-educational studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2587-6139

DOI - 10.17759/psyedu.2014060316

Subject(s) - gender dysphoria , sexology , transgender , german , political science , professional standards , gender identity disorder , psychology , gender identity , law , psychoanalysis , sociology , gender studies , history , human sexuality , engineering ethics , engineering , archaeology

German Society for Sexual Research, Academy of Sexual Medicine and Society of Sexology formulated standards for evaluation and treatment of transsexuals. The creation of the standards involved Sophinette Becker, Hartmut A. G. Bosinski, Ulrich Clement, Wolf Eicher, Thomas M. Goerlich, Uwe Hartmann, Götz Kockott, Dieter Langer, Wilhelm E. Preuss, Gunter Schmidt, Alfred Springer, Reinhard Wille. Since 1980, the Federal Republic of Germany has a law on transsexualism, which regulates the right of the individual to change the sex. However, until now there were no specifically defined standards of assessment and treatment of transsexuals. For the first time, in 1979 Harry Benjamin invited the International Medical Association of Germany to revise the standards of medical care for gender dysphoria. The following standards of assessment and treatment of transsexuals have been developed at a conference convened by the German Society for Research Expert Committee under the leadership of Sophinette Becker. The review of currently valid standards for evaluation and treatment of transgender is the subject of this article.

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