There is strong discomfort with the patient's own sex or a feeling that the gender role of that sex is inappropriate for the patient. The patient does not have a physical intersex condition. These symptoms cause clinically important distress or impair work, social or personal functioning. Transvestic Fetishism Other Paraphilias. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.
Some disorders have similar or even the same symptoms.
Children with Gender Identity Disorder may manifest coexisting Associated Personality Disorders are more common among males than among females being evaluated at adult gender clinics. Only a very small number of children with Gender Identity Disorder will continue to have symptoms that meet criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in later adolescence or adulthood. Typically, children are referred around the time of school entry because of parental concern that what they regarded as a phase does not appear to be passing. Most children with Gender Identity Disorder display less overt cross-gender behaviors with time, parental intervention, or response from peers. In adult males, there are two different courses for the development of Gender Identity Disorder.