PSYC 2364 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Castration Anxiety, Partialism, Aversion Therapy
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Gender identity one"s 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 result of a conflict between their anatomic sex and their gender identity. Transgender identity - the psychological sense of belonging to one gender while possessing the sexual organs of the other. Not all people with transgender identity have gender dysphoria or any other diagnosable disorder. Although the prevalence rate of gender dysphoria is unknown, the disorder is certainly uncommon. It is believed to often begin in childhood. It can end by adolescence; with the child"s becoming more accepting of her or his gender identity, or it may persist into adolescence or adulthood. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery 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.
