Gender-identity-disorder Sentence Examples

Researchers have found that both early socialization and hormonal factors may play a role in the development of gender identity disorder.

Children with gender identity disorder usually feel from their earliest years that they are trapped in the wrong body and begin to show signs of gender confusion between the ages of two and four.

Girls with gender identity disorder are bored by ordinary female pastimes and prefer the rougher types of play typically associated with boys, such as contact sports.

Inchildhood, girls with gender identity disorder experience less overall social rejection than boys, as it is more socially acceptable for a girl to be a tomboy than for a boy to be perceived as a "sissy."

Teenagers with gender identity disorder suffer social isolation and are vulnerable to depression and suicide.

Children with gender identity disorder refuse to dress and act in sex-stereotypical ways.

Most children eventually outgrow gender identity disorder.

About 75 percent of boys with gender identity disorder develop a homosexual or bisexual orientation by late adolescence or adulthood, but without continued feelings of transsexuality.

Those individuals in whom gender identity disorder persists into adulthood retain the desire to live as members of the opposite sex, sometimes manifesting this desire by cross-dressing, either privately or in public.

Some psychiatrists are critical of gender identity disorder being classified as a psychiatric condition at all, saying it is more a social stigma.

In childhood, girls with gender identity disorder experience less overall social rejection than boys, as it is more socially acceptable for a girl to be a tomboy than for a boy to be perceived as feminine.

Children with gender identity disorder have strong cross-gender identification.

It should be noted that the categorization of gender identity disorder as a mental illness has been a point of some contention among mental health professionals.