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Etiology of Transsexualism

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Gender Dysphoria

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Sexuality ((PISE))

Abstract

The answer to the question of what determines gender identity in hermaphrodites is still not definitively answered in spite of much research that was described in the previous chapter. All the findings show the enormous influence played by sex assignment at birth and rearing, and some workers, like Ellis (1945) and Money and his co-workers (Money, Hampson, & Hampson, 1957) even conclude from their studies of hermaphrodites that sex assignment at birth and rearing play the overriding roles in determining not only gender identity but also eroticism.

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Hoenig, J. (1985). Etiology of Transsexualism. In: Steiner, B.W. (eds) Gender Dysphoria. Perspectives in Sexuality. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4784-2_3

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