Article 6: How gender dysphoria and incongruence became medical diagnoses

Question 1

Transgenderism in ancient history

Answer 1

Transgerism was present in greek and roman mythology. Roman emperor Elagabalus asked to be addressed femininely and wanted sexual reassignment.

Question 2

Conflation of homosexuality and transgender

Answer 2

Early on in the 19th century homosexuality and transgender was viewed as the same. Where a man who was gay had a femine soul and the same for trans women.

Question 3

Transvestites, transsexuals, and transgenders difference

Answer 3

Transvesite = people who only want to dress as the opposite sex

Transsexual = people whose actual sex was not their birth sex

Transgender = people who have a different gender than the one assigned at birth

Question 4

Evolution of transgender diagnoses over the years

Answer 4

In 1980 it was described as transsexualism, transvetism was a different diagnosis.

1987: Gender Identity Disorder of childhood and adulthood, also Transsexualism.

1990: Transsexualism, duration ≥ 2 years

Dual-role transvestism

Gender identity disorder of childhood (no specific duration requirement)

2013: Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults

Gender Dysphoria in Children.

A minimal duration of 6 months is required for both diagnoses.