article ‘Family cooccurrence of “gender dysphoria
In their article ‘Family cooccurrence of “gender dysphoria”: ten sibling or parent-child pairs’researchers Green and Psych (2000) examine cases of the family concurrence of transsexualism in families in London. The research article published in 2000 analyzes cases where families report cases of cooccurrence, for instance, male transsexualism in male twins, among the other ten cases. The examples include transsexualism in male-female in monozygotic twins, three cases in two brothers, male to female transsexualism in transvestic father, and male to female for a father with gender dysphoria. Others include examples of transsexual father and transvestic son, both transvestic father, and son, transsexual dysphoric sisters, and transsexual and gender dysphoric sisters. The purpose is to understand the cause of such a phenomenon as in the past, transsexualism cooccurrence in father and child has been an improbable rarity in the past recording as slight as one in 30,000 cases in females and one in 100,000 cases in male-female siblings.
The findings reveal while these are reported cases, transsexualism in families is still a phenomenon that cannot depend on psychology alone for an explanation. As the authors opine, the social learning theory and many others cannot explain occurrence in siblings who did not experience exposure to father with atypical behaviors. More importantly, the authors recommend that genetic science as a will be useful in mapping and explaining concurrence in families with homosexual and mixed heterosexual siblings.
My thoughts are that sexuality is a complex matter that people tend to overlook because of the scariness it my present based on the atypical behavior. It is, therefore, important that more research is directed towards understanding transsexualism in such families. Further, nurses, with the consent of the patient, should be able to help in the identification of such individuals so that more genetic research is geared towards helping such patients.