GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER IN A GIRL WITH AUTISM - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
LANDEN M RASMUSSEN P
Citation
M. Landen et P. Rasmussen, GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER IN A GIRL WITH AUTISM - A CASE-REPORT, European child & adolescent psychiatry, 6(3), 1997, pp. 170-173
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psychology, Developmental
Journal title
European child & adolescent psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188827
Volume
6
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
170 - 173
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8827(1997)6:3<170:GIDIAG>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A girl with high functioning autism who developed transsexualism is de scribed. The literature to date has, to the authors' knowledge, not do cumented any similar case. The diagnosis of a coexisting psychiatric d isorder in transsexualism has implications for the evaluation, prognos is, and appropriate management of the patient. The question of a possi ble relationship between autism and transsexualism and whether there i s a predisposition to gender dysphoria in autism, is discussed.