PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Gender Dysphoria, Tunxis Community College, Premature Ejaculation
8 Dec 2020
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Gender identity- ones psychological sense of being female or being male. Gender dysphoria- a type of psychological disorder in which people experience significant personal distress or impaired functioning as a a result of a conflict between their anatomic sex and their gender identity. Transgender identity- psychological sense of belonging to one gender while possessing the sexual organs of the other. Can participate in sexual activity and even reach orgasm, but they cannot conceive or bear children because they lack the internal reproductive organs of their newly reconstructed sex. Men tend to get this surgery more than women. Extremely close mother-son relationships, empty relationships with parents, and fathers who were absent or detached. Family circumstances may foster strong identification with the mother in young males, leading to a reversal of expected gender roles and identity. Girls with weak, ineffectual mothers and strong masculine fathers may overly identify with their fathers and develop a psychological sense of themselves as little men .
