title: Gender identity problems of children and adolescents: the establishment of a special clinic.
abstract: Theoretical accounts of the origins of gender identity disturbance are reviewed and then followed by a description of the establishment of a child and adolescent gender identity clinic. Clinical impressions of 16 gender disturbed patients are presented and the position is taken that most patients manifested a confused, as opposed to fixed, core gender identity.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002661:Child Guidance Clinics; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012106:Research; D014190:Transvestism / Q000523:psychology