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Vinay, B.; Krishna, Prasad M.; Suresh, Kumar; Srikala, Bharath – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2010
Transsexualism is a desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one's anatomic sex and a wish to have hormonal treatment and surgery to make one's body as congruent as possible with the preferred sex (ICD-10). There are an estimated one million Hijras,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Surgery, Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity