Atypical gender development

• What is gender dysphoria?

  When a person experiences discomfort or distress because there is a mismatch between their sex assigned at birth and their gender identity
• What does the DSM-5 exclude?

  Atypical gender conditions with a biological basis, for example 'Klinefelter's syndrome'
• What is the role of the BST?

  It is involved in emotional responses and male sexual behaviours rats
• What is the difference between the BTS in men and women?

  This area is larger in men than women
• What was found in transgender women (men-woman)?

  The BST area was originally smaller before transitioning
• What is the size of BST in people with Gender dysphoria?

  The size of the sex they identify with, not their biological sex
• When does gender dysphoria arise?

  When people have to choose their gender
• What is argued following the idea GD comes from picking your gender?

  Dysphoria is not pathological, but due to social factors ~
• What do Ovesey and Person suggest GD in males is caused by?

  A child experiencing extreme separation anxiety before gender identity has been established
• How is this anxiety relieved?

  When the boy fantasises about a symbiotic fusion with his mother
• What does these fantasies about mother cause?

  The boy 'becomes' the mother and thus adopts a female gender identity