Case Study: Dealing With Gender Identity Disorder

Dealing with gender identity disorder also known as trans-sexualism can be a hard process for many people to go through if they are dealing with this situation. Most people can find themselves afraid of what others may think of them, or how people will react to the disorder. When people find themselves having gender identity disorder they may deny it themselves because of society and family values. They do not intent for this is be a part of their life but it starts to change their entire aspect of living. This disorder can also change the way people feel about life, their goals, their friends, and their self perspective until the have found themselves satisfied with who they are. According to Brown some symptoms that those with gender identity
When he was young he believed his genitals would fall off and reveal his feminine body, just as children with this disorder think. As he started to grow up he began to be sexually active with other men. Because Phil never felt comfortable with his sexual identity he became intimately involved with other women. This caused him to suffer between a conflict of his physical gender and being a man that he is; though he is not comfortable with who he seems to be. Just because Phil is going through this disorder does not mean it is putting a stop on his everyday living. Instead of feeling depressed, isolated and ruining his current life, he continues to be educated and is a professor of anthropology. He tells his readers the background of his childhood by explaining that as a child he found himself more interested in playing with girly toys and would hang around more girls. Once scenarios became more serious Phil tried therapy. A positive outcome of the situation is that Phil had a close relationship with his mother who supported his homosexuality. Throughout his entire life he felt that he was a female trapped in a mans body. He was not who he wanted to be. This made him think about surgery one he started getting older. As long as his life turned out to be happier he wanted to help himself
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