What you should know about transsexuality

Gender identity is the conviction we have to behave according to what is socially established: feminine or masculine. It usually coincides with biological sex, which distinguishes between men and women. In the case of transsexual people, the situation is different.

They live a conflict between their gender identity and biological sex, because the first does not correspond to the second, so they have the feeling of being a man in a woman's body or vice versa. This has to do with self-perception and not with sexual preference.

The origin of transsexuality is still unknown, but some researchers suggest that it could be due to certain prenatal factors.

 

We think that the hormones of the fetus do not do their job in some areas of the brain that regulate sexual behavior, basically in the hypothalamus, where the pituitary or pituitary gland arises, responsible for the production of hormones of almost the whole body, of the function sexual and reproductive, among other functions ", explains Rafael Salín-Pascual, coordinator of the Sexual Diversity Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM.

Affirms that it is not a disease, or a hereditary or voluntary disease. Many times parents want to force the children's gender identity or think they are sick and try to find solutions to cure it. Transsexuality is an expression of human sexual diversity.

Therefore, and to achieve better living conditions, the transformation process from man to woman or vice versa, through hormonal treatments and sex change surgery, is accompanied by mental health, so that the person can assume their gender identity in accordance with your body.


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