Eating disorder in a transgendered patient: a case report.
This paper reports the case of a 25-year-old biological male transgendered patient referred to a specialist eating disorder service, and presenting with persistent purging, subjective binging, and restricting. She articulated a close link between transgender issues and the development of eating disorder symptoms. By virtue of its emphasis on estrangement from body, biological gender, and expected social role, transgenderism may constitute a risk factor for developing an eating disorder in certain men.
Surgenor
L J
LJ
Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Fear
J L
JL
D000328:Adult; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013315:Stress, Psychological