title: Transsexualism: A selective review.
abstract: Progress in evaluating and treating the patient who seeks a change of sex is reviewed. The causes of transsexualism and the clinical differentiation of transsexualism, transvestism, and homosexuality are discussed. Criteria for selecting candidates for sex reassignment surgery are given, and preliminary results of work at Vanderbilt University are reported.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014190:Transvestism / Q000175:diagnosis