A02 gender dysphoria Flashcards
What are the 3 sections
Psychological explanations
Biological explanations
What are the 3 sections for psychological explanations
Mental illness
Mother son rels
General psychological influences
Who tested mental illness
Cole et al
What did Cole et al do and find
Studied ppl xp gender dysphoria
Found that the rage of psychiatric conditions displayed wasn’t greater than found in a normal pop
Conclusion for mental illness
Gender dysphoria is generally unrelated to trauma or pathological families
Who tested mother son rels
Zucker et al
What did Zucker et al do and find
Studied go boys and their mum’s
64 percent were also diagnosed with seperation anxiety disorder compared to only 38 of the boys whose symptoms were subclinical
Conclusion for mother son rel
Disordered attachment to a mother is a factor of gid but only explains mtf trannys
Talk about general psychological influences
Persistently dressing a young boy in girls clothing and vice versa may explain trannys
4 sections for biological explanations
Prenatal hormonal abnormalities
Criticisms of brain sex theory
Support for brain sex theory
Environmental effects
Who tested prenatal hormonal abnormalities
Dessens et al
What did dessens et al do and find
Studied genetic females with cah who were raised as females
Despite prenatal exposure to male hormones 95% of them identified themselves as females. Other xp gd
Conclusion for prenatal hormonal abnormalities
Generally prenatal exposure to male hormones didn’t show a clear rel with gd
Who went against the brain sex theory
Chung et al
Hulshoff pol et al
What did chung et al do and find
Said diff between in BSTc volume between genders only happened in adulthood, whereas most trannys report that their feelings of gd begin in childhood
Suggests diff is an effect of gd rather than a cause
