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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Sexual Behavior > Sexuality > Transsexualism
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Sexuality > Transsexualism
... > Psychological Phenomena > Psychological Theory > Psychoanalytic Theory > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity > Transsexualism
... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Psychosexual Development > Gender Identity > Transsexualism
... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity > Transsexualism
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Defense Mechanisms > Identification, Psychological > Gender Identity > Transsexualism

Preferred term

Transsexualism  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Transexualism
  • Transexualisms
  • Transgenderism

Note

  • index both MALE and FEMALE check tags

Scope note

  • Expression of a GENDER IDENTITY inconsistent with, or not culturally-associated with the gender assigned to an individual at birth, combined with the desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify.

History note

  • 68

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014189

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