The etiology of transsexualism, meaning the cause or causes of transsexualism, is an area of interest for many transsexual people, physicians, psychologists, other mental health professionals, and family members and friends of transsexual people. Currently, there is no scientifically proven cause of transsexualism.. For many years, many people assumed that transsexualism was a psychological/emotional disorder caused by psychological factors. More...
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The etiology of transsexualism, meaning the cause or causes of transsexualism, is an area of interest for many transsexual people, physicians, psychologists, other mental health professionals, and family members and friends of transsexual people. Currently, there is no scientifically proven cause of transsexualism.. For many years, many people assumed that transsexualism was a psychological/emotional disorder caused by psychological factors. More recently, research has suggested that the cause of transsexualism may be rooted in biology, and a segment of the medical profession has come to view transsexualism as a physiological condition rather than a psychological one.
Harry Benjamin wrote, "Summarizing my impression, I would like to repeat here what I said in my first lecture on the subject more than 10 years ago: Our genetic and endocrine equipment constitutes either an unresponsive [or] fertile soil on which the wrong conditional and a psychic trauma can grow and develop into such a...
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