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It is revealed that her father, Dr. Steven, was the one who sexually abused her, causing her to develop Dissociative Identity Disorder resulting in the creation of the alter Toni, and becomes a thing of her mother's detest. While living in Italy during her teenage years, she was once again assaulted by her father, leading to the creation of Alette.
Of course, now we know that gender isn’t always binary, it can change over a person’s lifetime, and someone’s biological sex at birth isn’t necessarily what their gender identity will be.
In Psychiatric Services, Dr. Margery Sved describes the book as "a well-researched and well-documented study of the socialization along gender roles that children still experience in the United States in the 1990s" and states the book "should be read by any individual wondering about 'gender identity' and by any mental health professional treating 'gender identity disorder' or 'gender atypical ...
Children with persistent gender dysphoria are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. [1] Some (but not all) gender variant youth will want or need to transition, which may involve social transition (changing dress, name, pronoun), and, for older youth and adolescents, medical transition (hormone therapy or surgery).
According to her own account, Chase was born on a homestead near Honeoye Falls, New York, and grew up in an apartment in the same town. [1] In her autobiography and in numerous interviews, Chase said that she was repeatedly and violently sexually and physically abused by her stepfather and beaten and neglected by her mother during her childhood and teenage years. [2]
On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked. Cinderella's stepsisters' language is decidedly more declarative than hers, and the woman at the center of the tale "The Lazy Spinner" is a slothful character who, to the Grimms' apparent chagrin, is "always ready with her tongue."
The psychiatric diagnosis of gender identity disorder (now gender dysphoria) was introduced in DSM-III in 1980. Arlene Istar Lev and Deborah Rudacille have characterized the addition as a political maneuver to re-stigmatize homosexuality. [107] [108] (Homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder in the DSM-II in 1974.)
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood is a novel by Fatima Mernissi; the UK title has been The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood.It describes her fictionalised youth in a Moroccan harem during the 1940s and explores the themes of Islamic feminism, Arab nationalism, French colonialism and the clash between the traditional and the modern.