Late-Onset Transgender Identity Development of Adolescents in Psychotherapy for Mood and Anxiety Problems: Approach to Assessment and Treatment.

This article illustrates those challenges with two adolescent patients who developed late-onset gender dysphoria in the course of long-term mental health care for diverse psychiatric problems preceding the emergence of gender dysphoria. One underwent full progression from gender dysphoria as a male through social and medical transition to female, the other a less definitive progression from gender dysphoria as female through social transition to male without deciding for any medical treatment. The report provides details on the assessment procedures and the resulting findings, the rationale for treatment recommendations, and short-term follow-up information. PMID: 30604171 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - January 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sevlever M, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: research