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Gender dysphoria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Philip Snaith
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Gender dysphoric disorders are currently attracting a great amount of attention. Generally, this attention is appropriately scientific and not condemnatory. This is possibly because of changing attitudes, but also because of the dissemination of information about what may be done to help people with these disorders. People are coming forward to request such help. Whether the surge of applicants to gender identity clinics (GICs) is due entirely to the change in attitude or whether there is a true increase in incidence of these disorders is at present undetermined. The fact, however, remains that prior to the second half of the present century little professional attention was paid to gender dysphoria (Bullogh, 1975).

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , November 1998 , pp. 356 - 359
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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