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Clinical variants among applicants for sex reassignment

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Loose usage of the term “transsexualism” and limitations of the diagnostic categories “transsexualism,” “transvestism,” and “homosexuality” as applied to applicants for sex reassignment have created difficulties in evaluation, disposition, and follow-up. Patients falling into the gray areas between diagnostic categories are more common than those fitting existing typologies. A description of some patients from one series and a broader diagnostic scheme for their classification are offered.

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  1. The Psychiatric Liaison Service and The Division of Plastic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Jon K. Meyer M.D.

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Supported by Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry Grant 71-518.

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Meyer, J.K. Clinical variants among applicants for sex reassignment. Arch Sex Behav 3, 527–558 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541136

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