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The Types of Heterosexual Gender Identity Disorder

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Canada

Robin Watson, MEd

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Canada

Robert Dickey, MD

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Canada

The rationale for dividing the clinical spectrum of DSM-III-R male heterosexual gender identity disorder into three types was examined. The DSM-III-R category of fetishism for female attire, was included in the analysis. There were 266 male participants divided into three groups: 172 fetishists for female attire or gender identity patients, 52 androphiles, and 42 gynephiles. A 16 item questionnaire was used to examine the groups. A three factor scale ("Fetishism", "Gender Dysphoria" and "Androphilia") was derived from the questionnaire. Only the Gender Dysphoria Factor Scale successfully differentiated between all four conditions, supporting the notion that the three types of gender identity disorder represent a continuum of degree of severity of gender dysphoria. Defining two of the three types of gender identity disorder in terms of the patients' self-reports on fetishism, as DSM-III-R does, is therefore unnecessary.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 4, No. 1, 93-105 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/107906329100400105


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