GWSS 257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: World Professional Association For Transgender Health, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Gender Dysphoria

• School: UW
• Department: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: GWSS 257
• Professor: Ann E.Culligan

Document Summary

Fascinated with individuals who would later be called transexual/transgender. Began to establish categories for behaviors which he thought were psychosexual disorders. Saw as a form of gender variation that could be acquired or innate from birth. Metamorphosis sexualis paranoica =classification for those who identify as members of the opposite" gender from their assigned sex. Coined the term transvestite=people who periodically wear clothes of opposite gender, viewed as grave mental illness. Viewed it as the intense desire to change entire sexual status, including anatomical structures. While male transvestite enacts role of woman, transexual wants to be one and. Believed that transexualism is caused by psychoological, hormonal, and physiological influences,and also traumatic events. Considered transvesttic behavior a social (and nonsexual)problem wherein transvestites want society to adapt to their desire to lead lives as different gender without needing to change their body, an impulse that he considered narcissistic and self involved.