title: Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders.
abstract: This article summarizes the discussions and recommendations of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders, a subcommittee of the Child Psychiatry Work Group, regarding diagnostic issues. The issues reviewed include placement in the nomenclature, the concept of a spectrum of gender dysphoria rather than discrete levels of symptomatology, criticisms of current diagnostic criteria, subtyping by sexual orientation, and proposed changes in diagnostic criteria for the current DSM-III-R diagnoses of Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood, Transsexualism, and Gender Identity Disorder of Adolescence or Adulthood, Nontranssexual Type.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Coates
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Meyer-Bahlburg
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Pauly
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Zucker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D005260:Female; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013240:Stereotyping; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*