Abnormal Diagnostic Manual

gender identity disorder 05

A person with gender identity disorder refers to a person who denies their gender psychologically, thinks that their gender is opposite to the gender of their external biological manifestations, and thus requires a change of biological sex.They don't like their gender and desperately desire to be another gender.

Childhood gender identity disorder is very common. Many people always want to be another gender when they are young, out of curiosity, yearning for the opposite sex, or other reasons, but most people resolve this before adulthood. gender dysphoria.

Gender Identity Disorder Explained from a psychodynamic perspective, GID is a dysregulation of the parent-infant bond.

For men, their close relationship with their mothers creates a female gender identity in infancy, and they want to become women themselves; for women, they lack physical or emotional care from their mothers and turn to their fathers To identify and want to become a man.

The behaviorist view holds that GID is the result of a long-term, subtle process in which a child's gender-role behavior is shaped in ways of the opposite sex by a significant caregiver.

For example, parents raise sons as daughters for a long time, dress up boys as girls, and train them according to girls' preferences. If this behavior is strengthened for a long time, the son will think that he should be a woman.

The point of view of spiritual science is that it may be a hormonal imbalance, or it may be related to brain differences.

There is also a view that it is a sex chromosome abnormality.During certain periods of fetal development, slight increases in androgen or estrogen levels may masculinize a female fetus or feminize a male fetus, resulting in GID.This fluctuation in hormone levels may occur naturally, or it may be related to certain drugs taken by pregnant women.

Interestingly, homosexual GIDs are attracted to the same sex, do not get sexual excitement from cross-dressing, try to live like a normal gay, but want to be loved as the opposite sex.For example, a gay GID, he 'interacts with men', but he thinks he should be a woman and wants to be loved by his boyfriend as a woman.

Then the heterosexual GID attracts the opposite sex. They can achieve sexual arousal by dressing up and imagining themselves as the opposite sex. They try to live like heterosexuals, and most of them are married.For example, a male heterosexual GID, he has sex with women, but he thinks that he should also be a woman. Although he has a seemingly normal heterosexual family, he really wants to be a woman.

Lin Ziming belonged to the latter. When he was still a teenager, he was also a tall and mighty handsome man. He was a boy who was especially liked by girls. Mrs. Lin was also captured at that time.After graduating from university, the two got married quickly. However, like ordinary young couples, many problems will be exposed after marriage. For example, she always finds that her clothes disappear when she wants to wear them. There is damage.Cosmetics were also consumed quickly, which made her wonder, and even suspected that her home had been stolen, or her memory had become confused.

Finally, one day she went out to drink with her colleagues in the company, and she was shocked when she met her husband who was wearing her skirt and dressed as a woman at the bar.

She thought her husband was a transvestite pervert, or even worse, a homosexual, pretending to be heterosexual to cheat marriage, but in fact she still liked men.This made her very angry and unwilling. Later, Lin Ziming confessed to her, and she understood his pain and troubles.

Lin Ziming often secretly wore his sister's clothes since he was a child. Imagining himself as a woman can make him feel happy. Dressing up with the opposite sex can temporarily satisfy his psychological needs, but it can't solve the problem for a long time. As a man, he still feels more and more In the pain of suffering, his desire to become a woman is getting stronger day by day. He wants to appear in public as a woman, and he wants to undergo surgery to completely become a woman.

Mrs. Lin couldn't accept it at first, after all, she had never come into close contact with this kind of strange cases written in novels in her life, but as she got to know Lin Ziming and lived with him for many years, she found that her Except that the husband wants to become a woman, nothing has changed in other aspects. They still love each other and their sex life is relatively harmonious.

But after more than 20 years, Lin Ziming has become more and more unbearable as a man's pain, and taking some antidepressant drugs can hardly suppress his violent temper.Mrs. Lin decided to support her husband.She accompanied him to see a psychiatrist and consulted with him about surgery.Lin Ziming began to use female hormones to prepare for his sexual transition, and gradually appeared in front of his friends in women's costumes, and his friends showed great understanding and tolerance.After living like this for several years, Lin Ziming passed the assessment of surgical suitability and finally began to undergo sexual/organ/organ surgery.

They also tried to make their only son understand his father's change, but the effect did not seem to be very good.The son didn't say a word about it, and he didn't like to go home anymore. He went to boarding high school, went away from home for college, and didn't contact his family.

Mrs. Lin is a person who can talk, and she held Sheng Ming in a lot of chatter, and she couldn't help but feel sad when talking about children.Lin Ziming's matter, she can understand, their friends can understand, but their only child can't accept it, and drifts away from them.Sheng Ming could only say a few words of comfort.

Xu Sheng Ming and Qi Yu, a psychologist, have been together for a long time, and they have unknowingly acquired a calming temperament.Mrs. Lin expressed the uneasiness she had endured for many years to Sheng Ming. She was very worried about her husband's surgery, worried about complications, and also a little uneasy about the rest of her life, but she was determined to stay with her husband forever.But the child went farther and farther away, doing everything in his own way, never listening to his parents, and originally wanted him to study business, but his son took the medical exam behind their backs. Medicine is so hard, and he was afraid that he would suffer. He cried while talking. up.

Sheng Ming had no choice but to dig out some useful comforting words from the few words he learned from chatting with Qi Yu, "Some men with gender identity disorders can still love their wives as deeply as before after undergoing surgery to change their gender, and their family relationships remain the same. It's very harmonious, don't worry. Children are still young, and they will understand their parents after going through society."

Mrs. Lin finally stopped crying.

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