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Transsexualism in hindu mythology

open access: yesIndian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2020
In spite of India showing progress in various medical, economic and social fronts, the care of the transgender individual is still encumbered by the various biases and taboos that people hold. But, this was not true in the antiquity.
Shiva Prakash Srinivasan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Muscle strength changes and physical activity during gender-affirming hormone therapy: A systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesAndrology
Abstract Background Higher muscle strength is associated with improved overall health and lower mortality. Muscle strength changes during gender‐affirming hormone therapy is possibly linked to gender‐affirming hormone therapy modality, age at initiation, gender‐affirming hormone therapy duration, and physical activity.
Nørlund MK   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mechanisms of abnormal brain development leading to transsexualism (review)

open access: yesАндрология и генитальная хирургия, 2014
Overview of national and world literature on sexual autoidentification is analyzed. Prenatal brain development abnormalities leading to transsexualism are discussed.
L. F. Kurilo   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

A challenging case of transsexualism

open access: yesSri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
A transsexual is an individual who seeks or has undergone a transition to the preferred sex. A 39-yearold man presented expressing the strong desire to change his sex to that of a female.
P. Ginige, H. K. K. I. De Alwis
doaj   +1 more source

Legislation regarding transexuality in Spain: advances, weaknesses and paradoxes

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2012
Transsexualism regulation has pointed the need to rethink the concepts of sex and gender. This is even more true for transsexualism regulation in non-specific legal instruments where gender is a key element.
Katrina Belsué Guillorme
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Four Polymorphisms Located at the Promoter of the Estrogen Receptor Alpha ESR1 Gene in a Population With Gender Incongruence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
[Abstract] Introduction: Gender incongruence defines a state in which individuals feel discrepancy between the sex assigned at birth and their gender. Some of these people make a social transition from male to female (transwomen) or from female to male ...
Almaraz, Mari Cruz   +8 more
core   +1 more source

TRANSSEXUALISM – AN INVESTIGATION

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2004
Transsexualism (also referred to as transsexuality) is a phenomenon that is not always well understood in society. From the time that this term was first used it has often been confused with sexual deviations such as homosexuality, bisexuality ...
C.J. Kotzé, C.W. Labuschagné
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-demographic portrait of transsexual patients in Russia

open access: yesМедицинский совет, 2019
Transsexualism is a distress caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth. Theme of  transsexualism has a strong resonance in society today. This phenomenon is significant both for the law system and for the health 
N. V. Solov’eva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sociodemographic Study of Danish Individuals Diagnosed with Transsexualism

open access: yesSexual Medicine, 2015
Introduction: Male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM) individuals with transsexualism (International Classification of Diseases-10) may differ in core clinical and sociodemographic variables such as age, sexual orientation, marriage and parenthood,
Rikke Simonsen, MA   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Representations and narratives of F to M Gender Dysphoric subjects: Self, Body and psycho-traumatology in comparison with M to F transsexualism

open access: yesJournal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2021
The present study was aimed at extending the method previously used with M to F gender dysphoric patients, to F to M individuals. In particular, the aim of the study was to highlight global and particular representations of the subjects.
Emanuele Maria Merlo
doaj   +1 more source

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