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Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders

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This chapter discusses the psychiatric aspects of non-binary genders. In particular, it describes the history and current psychiatric classification of trans and non-binary genders; the prevalence of non-binary identities; the relationship between non-binary gender identities and trans binary identities; the relationship between non-binary identities and mental illness and neuroatypicality; and the psychiatric evaluation of non-binary identities. Finally, it argues that research needs to focus on issues pertinent to non-binary-identified people and their treatment without pathologising their identities, and that psychiatrists need to become more aware of non-binary identities in both general psychiatric and specialist trans health clinic settings.

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  1. Nottingham Center for Transgender Health, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

    Sarah Murjan & Walter Pierre Bouman

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  1. Nottingham Center for Transgender Health, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Christina Richards

  2. Nottingham Center for Transgender Health, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Walter Pierre Bouman

  3. Psychology in the Social Sciences, The Open University Psychology in the Social Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    Meg-John Barker

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Murjan, S., Bouman, W.P. (2017). Psychiatry. In: Richards, C., Bouman, W., Barker, MJ. (eds) Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders. Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51053-2_7

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