Cross-gendered identifications and homosexual boyhood: toward a more complex theory of gender.
This paper focuses on a subset of homosexual boys whose mixed gender experience moves beyond the conventional categories of masculinity and femininity, and who are often labeled as pathological due to a reluctance to recognize the reality of gender variance and cross-gendered identifications within the domain of mental health. Clinical examples are offered to highlight the need for a theory of gender that accounts for the interweaving of gender and psychic structure as they co-evolve and reflect the chaos inherent in human subjectivity.
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D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005783:Gender Identity; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception