title: [Scientific output on transsexuality in the Spanish biomedical literature: bibliometric and content analyses (1973-2011)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the scientific output on transsexuality in the Spanish biomedical literature between 1973 and 2011, through bibliometric and content analyses.
  
  
  METHODS
  We carried out a descriptive, cross-sectional study of Spanish biomedical articles on transsexuality published between 1973 and 2011. The data sources consisted of Índice Médico Español and ISOC-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Bibliometric and content analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 65 papers were analyzed. Knowledge on transsexuality in Spain began to appear in medical journals between 1973 and 1984. A decade of intense productivity began in 1996 and the number of journals publishing articles on transsexuality multiplied in the following years. Until 2006, the year with the most biomedical productivity, biomedical discourses reproduced representations of transsexuality anchored in biological determinism. From 2008-2011, professionals writing on the topic incorporated feminist theories and social perspectives in their discourses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the dominant medical discourse considered manifestations of transsexual people from a biologist perspective that conceives transsexuality as a configuration mismatch between sex and gender. The emergence of new identity categories and medical reflection from non-essentialist and non-normative gender perspectives has improved the clinical management of transsexuality.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España. Electronic address: pnavarroperez@ugr.es.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Navarro-Pérez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia e Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Gómez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
authors.forename: Eugenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gil-García
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors; D014189:Transsexualism
keywords: Bibliometrics; Bibliometría; Determinismo genético; Feminism; Feminismo; Gender identity; Genetic determinism; Identidad de género; Medicalización; Medicalization; Transexualidad; Transsexualism