Gender Dysphoria Flashcards
What is a person’s sex?
Sex assigned at birth based on external genitalia
What is a person’s gender identity?
Intrinsic sense of being male or female or an alternative
What is gender role/expression
Personality, Appearance and Behaviour
What is the karyotypes that contributes to gender issues?
Klineflter’s- XXY
What is the congenital disease that causes gender issues?
CAH
What are the different words for transgender?
Queer
Non Binary
Agender
What is it to be transsexual?
Tried to change primary ± secondary sex characteristics
What is FtM?
Female at birth became male (Transfemale)
What is MtF?
Male at birth become female (Transmale)
What is sexual orientation?
Sex of persons to whom sexual fantasies, arousal and activity is directed
Who experiences phatom penis?
Men after penectomy
Many women before surgery!
What services are necessary for transsexual individuals?
a) all
b) FtM
c) MtF
a) Social transition help and counselling
Psychotherapy
OT
Fertility discussions
Voice and communication training
b) Male Chest reconstruction, Androgens and GnRH analogue, Hysterectomy and bilar salpingectomy and oophrectomy, metoidioplasty
c) Facial hair removal, anti androgens, oestrogen, vaginoplasty, augmentation mammoplasty, facial feminisation surgery
