Social Explanations of Gender Dysphoria

Question 1

What do social explanations see gender dysphoria as?

Answer 1

Being learned for example by operant conditioning where individuals are reinforced for exhibiting cross gender behaviour

Question 2

What does the learning theory argue?

Answer 2

That parents of gender dysohoric children may have reinforced the condition by encouraging and complimenting their children for such behaviour

Question 3

What did Stoller propose?

Answer 3

That gender dysphoria results from distorted parental attitudes

Question 4

What did Stoller find?

Answer 4

In clinical interviews with individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria, Stoller observed that they displayed overly close and enmeshed mother son relationships

Question 5

What did Zucker suggest?

Answer 5

In the case of female to male transsexuals, female identity as males because of servere parental rejection in early childhood, unconsciously they think that if they become males they might gain respect from their father

Question 6

What did Gehring and Knutson do?

Answer 6

Studied a sample of 42 transsexuals (32 born as men and 8 born as women) and found that 23 (55%) reported some form of unwanted sexual event at an average age of 14

Question 7

What is an evaluation point?

Answer 7

• Ignores the role of biology