The desire to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex is a phenomenon that has existed in every age and in every culture. The first description of it in the medical literature seems to have been given by the German, J. Friedreich in 1830, and some years later Esquirol gave a brief account of two other cases.

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Preface (8 KB)
Review of literature (69 KB)
Analysis of 207 cases (45 KB)
Own study (5 KB)

• Definitions used (6 KB)
• Prevalence (9 KB)
• Subjects (8 KB)
• Sources of data used (7 KB)
• Age of conscious onset (11 KB)
• Physical characteristics (8 KB)
• Body measurements (9 KB)
• Mental and behavioral characteristics associated with transsexualism (20 KB)
• Other mental disorders (8 KB)
• Social adjustment (7 KB)
• Sex object choice and sexual urge (11 KB)
• Personality (15 KB)
• Masculinity-feminity measured with psychologic tests (21 KB)
• Intelligence quotient (7 KB)
• Hormones (8 KB)
• Electroencephalogram (9 KB)
• Sex chromatin (6 KB)
• Mothers´s condition during pregnancy and circumstances of birth (6 KB)
• Circumstances in history of patients (10 KB)
• Neurotic traits during childhood (8 KB)
• Mental and physical disease in parents and sibs (9 KB)
• Parental age and birth order (8 KB)
• Family background (16 KB)
• Treatment (7 KB)

General discussion (38 KB)
Summary (13 KB)
References (42 KB)
Case reports (5 KB)

• Male (77 KB)
• Female (30 KB)

Appendix

• Table A (28 KB)
• Table B (38 KB)