Gender Identity disorder
Gender Identity Disorder In recent week we have discussed the issue of gender identity, and homosexuality. ... Early Identification and treatment of gender identity disorder is an interesting article. ... This study was done before gender identity disorder of childhood was formulated as an official diagnosis in 1980 in DSM-III. However there are many people that think this is not a disorder. The article say that when assessing cross-gender behavior, one should understand that if the behavior is Isolated a parent can be assured that such episodic behavior fall within the normal range. ... ” I thought it was interesting that psychotherapeutic intervention have been scientifically demonstrated to produce normalization, also positive reinforcement for normal sex typed play, normal speech patterns and gender-appropriate behavioral mannerisms has been found to be effective. I found this article a bit disturbing; I thought that it was disturbing that a child that young would have a gender identity crisis. Maybe I’m ignorant to cross gender identification but I thought that it was a little odd for child that young to cross dress and speak with a high pitch voice. ... I thought that it was interesting that gender identity disorder was treatable and that 6 to 23 percent of children who went untreated went on to live heterosexual lives and 64 to 75 percent went to live bisexual or homosexual lives.