Evolving Language and Understanding in the Historical Development of the Gender Identity Disorder Diagnosis
Author:
- Stacee ReicherzerSRStacee Reicherzer
- 4 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling
- Vol. 2 (4) , 326-347
Abstract
This review examines the contemporary history of transgender experience as it has informed the development of the diagnosis known as gender identity disorder. Since the first sexual reassignments were documented in the 1920s, the medical and mental health professions have articulated an evolving body of literature to describe transgender phenomena that uses a diagnostic language that is specific to each period in which the literature has been developed. By presenting the evolution of language and classification in the medicalization of transgender phenomena, this review provides invitation of scrutiny in the role this diagnosis plays in upholding transgender social opprobrium.Keywords
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