Gender Identity Disturbances in Intersexed Patients
LAWRENCE E. NEWMAN M.D.1, and
ROBERT J. STOLLER M.D.1
1 Gender identity research clinic, department of psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024
The outward manifestations of gender role may conceal an aberration of gender identity in intersexed patients. The authors present the case of a woman with pseudohermaphroditism whose apparent femininity concealed an ambiguous gender identity. The mother's early uncertainty about the child's sex led to this disorder. Physicians involved in the treatment of intersexed patients should be aware of this kind of problem.
