Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Comment on Meyer-Bahlburg (2010)

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
Archives of Sexual Behavior Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed., revised). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text revision). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2010). Proposed revision: 302.85, gender identity disorder in adolescents or adults. Retrieved from http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=482.

  • Benjamin, H. (1966). The transsexual phenomenon. New York: Julian Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1985). Typology of male-to-female transsexualism. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 14, 247–261.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1989a). The classification and labeling of nonhomosexual gender dysphorias. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 18, 315–334.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1989b). The concept of autogynephilia and the typology of male gender dysphoria. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 177, 616–623.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1991). Clinical observations and systematic studies of autogynephilia. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 17, 235–251.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1992). Nonmonotonic relation of autogynephilia and heterosexual attraction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 271–276.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1993a). Partial versus complete autogynephilia and gender dysphoria. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 19, 301–307.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R. (1993b). Varieties of autogynephilia and their relationship to gender dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 22, 241–251.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R., Clemmensen, L. H., & Steiner, B. W. (1987). Heterosexual and homosexual gender dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 16, 139–152.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard, R., Racansky, I. G., & Steiner, B. W. (1986). Phallometric detection of fetishistic arousal in heterosexual male cross-dressers. Journal of Sex Research, 22, 452–462.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deogracias, J. J., Johnson, L. L., Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F., Kessler, S. J., Schober, J. M., & Zucker, K. J. (2007). The gender identity/gender dysphoria questionnaire for adolescents and adults. Journal of Sex Research, 44, 370–379.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Docter, R. F. (1988). Transvestites and transsexuals: Toward a theory of cross-gender behavior. New York: Plenum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Docter, R. F., & Prince, V. (1997). Transvestism: A survey of 1032 cross-dressers. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 26, 589–605.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Doorn, C. D., Poortinga, J., & Verschoor, A. M. (1994). Cross-gender identity in transvestites and male transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 23, 185–201.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • First, M. B., & Wakefield, J. C. (2010). Defining ‘mental disorder’ in DSM-V. A commentary on: ‘What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V’ by Stein et al. (2010). Psychological Medicine, 40, 1779–1782.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Freund, K., & Blanchard, R. (1993). Erotic target location errors in male gender dysphorics, paedophiles, and fetishists. British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 558–563.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (1999a). Thirty-one new narratives about autogynephilia. Retrieved from http://www.annelawrence.com/twr/31narratives.html.

  • Lawrence, A. A. (1999b). Twenty-eight narratives about autogynephilia. Retrieved from http://www.annelawrence.com/twr/28narratives.html.

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2004). Autogynephilia: A paraphilic model of gender identity disorder. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 8(1/2), 69–87.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2005). Sexuality before and after male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 147–166.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2006). Clinical and theoretical parallels between desire for limb amputation and gender identity disorder. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 263–278.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2007). Becoming what we love: Autogynephilic transsexualism conceptualized as an expression of romantic love. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50, 506–520.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2009). Erotic target location errors: An underappreciated paraphilic dimension. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 194–215.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawrence, A. A. (2010). Societal individualism predicts prevalence of nonhomosexual orientation in male-to-female transsexualism. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 573–583.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Marks, I., Green, R., & Mataix-Cols, D. (2000). Adult gender identity disorder can remit. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 41, 273–275.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Meyer, W., Bockting, W. O., Cohen-Kettenis, P., Coleman, E., DiCeglie, D., Devor, H., … Wheeler, C. (2001). The standards of care for gender identity disorders, sixth version. Düsseldorf: Symposion.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L. (2010). From mental disorder to iatrogenic hypogonadism: Dilemmas in conceptualizing gender identity variants as psychiatric conditions. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 461–476.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Money, J. (1986). Lovemaps: Clinical concepts of sexual/erotic health and pathology, paraphilia, and gender transposition in childhood, adolescence, and maturity. New York: Irvington.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ovesey, L., & Person, E. (1973). Gender identity and sexual psychopathology in men: A psychodynamic analysis of homosexuality, transsexualism, and transvestism. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1, 53–72.

    Google Scholar 

  • Prosser, J. (1998). Second skins: The body narratives of transsexuality. New York: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shore, E. S. (1984). The former transsexual: A case study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 13, 277–285.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Stein, D. J., Phillips, K. A., Bolton, D., Fulford, K. W. M., Sadler, J. Z., & Kendler, K. S. (2010). What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V. Psychological Medicine, 40, 1759–1765.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Stoller, R. J. (1968). Sex and gender: On the development of masculinity and femininity. New York: Science House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2003). Clarifying the distinction between disorder and nondisorder: Confronting the overdiagnosis (false positives) problem in DSM-V. In K. A. Phillips, M. B. First, & H. A. Pincus (Eds.), Advancing DSM: Dilemmas in psychiatric. diagnosis (pp. 23–55). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association.

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitam, F. L. (1997). Culturally universal aspects of male homosexual transvestites and transsexuals. In B. Bullough, V. L. Bullough, & J. Elias (Eds.), Gender blending (pp. 189–203). Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization. (1992). International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (10th rev., Vol. 1). Geneva, Switzerland: Author.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

    Anne A. Lawrence

  2. 6801 28th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA

    Anne A. Lawrence

Authors
  1. Anne A. Lawrence
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Anne A. Lawrence.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Lawrence, A.A. Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Comment on Meyer-Bahlburg (2010). Arch Sex Behav 40, 651–654 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9720-2

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-010-9720-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation