Gender_Identity_Disorder

Gender Identity Disorder Gender Identity Disorders Gender Identity Disorders (GID) is questioning yourself about who you want to be. It is the desire to want to be the opposite sex. It usually starts between the ages of two and four People with this disorder feel uncomfortable being their given sex. They tend to dress up like the opposite sex, known as cross-dressing. People with gender identity disorder usually have it start as a child which is said to be more common in boys than in girls. Some adults with GID tend to take is as far as becoming a transexual, that is someone who seeks surgical treatment to become phsyically that of the opposite sex. Now, I will discuss some of he casues, symtoms and treatments of gender identity disorder. There are several causes of GID, but those causes are truly unknown. There are several different theories on this subject though. Some of which include, a dysfunctional family life, relationship difficulties with peers, family mental health problems, social sensitivity a bereavement, sexual abuse, early socialization and prenatal hormones . In humans the third interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus is usually larger in the male. LeVay (1991) has disorder, identity, gender, sex, opposite, gid, family, cases, people, often, desire, try, treatment, social, problems, male, live, help, given, feel, causes, very, uncomfortable, treatments, symtoms, several, set, relationships, present, outcome, order, ones, nucleus, men, make, known, individuals, hormonal, homosexual, heterosexual, four, female, effects, diagnosed, depression, cross-dressing, counseling, child, behavioral, adults