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How gender dysphoria and incongruence became medical diagnoses – a historical review
2021
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
This article is a historical review of the medical and psychiatric diagnoses associated with transgender people across epochs. Ancient Greek and Roman writings already mention gender change. Before a diagnosis even existed, historical documents described the lives of numerous people whom we would consider transgender today. The development of medical classifications took off in the nineteenth century, driven by the blooming of natural sciences. In the nineteenth century, most authors conflated
doi:10.1080/19585969.2022.2042166
pmid:35860172
pmcid:PMC9286744
fatcat:bawegkbgfbgvnhbypyph2knvgq