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Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders

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This article summarizes the discussions and recommendations of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders, a subcommittee of the Child Psychiatry Work Group, regarding diagnostic issues. The issues reviewed include placement in the nomenclature, the concept of a spectrum of gender dysphoria rather than discrete levels of symptomatology, criticisms of current diagnostic criteria, subtyping by sexual orientation, and proposed changes in diagnostic criteria for the current DSM-III-R diagnoses of Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood, Transsexualism, and Gender Identity Disorder of Adolescence or Adulthood, Nontranssexual Type.

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  1. DSM-IV Subcommittee for Gender Identity Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, M5G IX8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Susan J. Bradley M.D. (Chair)

  2. Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic, Child and Family Studies Centre, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Ray Blanchard Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Zucker Ph.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Childhood Gender Identity Unit, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

    Susan Coates Ph.D.

  4. Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Richard Green M.D., J.D.

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Stephen B. Levine M.D.

  6. Program of Developmental Psychoendocrinology, Division of Child Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

    Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg Dr. rer. nat.

  7. Department of Psychiatry, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA

    Ira B. Pauly M.D.

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The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent the official positions of the DSM-IV Task Force of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Bradley, S.J., Blanchard, R., Coates, S. et al. Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. Arch Sex Behav 20, 333–343 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542614

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