A Special Case of Gender-Identity Difficulty
Transsexualism
- Sex-Reassignment procedures
- The initial step involves extensive screening interviews, during which the person’s motivations for undergoing the change are thoroughly evaluated.
- The second step is to adopt the lifestyle consistent with the gender identity.
- If after several months to a year or longer, it appears that the individual has successfully adjust to that lifestyle, the next step is hormone therapy, a process designed to accentuate latent traits of the desired sex.