GENDER IDENTIFICATION DISORDER: MISDIAGNOSIS AND INADEQUATE GUIDANCE CHALLENGE
The authors present a clinical case and discuss difficulties in diagnosis of transsexualism and clinically similar conditions including those developing as a part of mental disease. The authors describe current examination pattern for persons seeking to change their gender and emphasize insufficient legal regulation base for professionals dealing with such patients. They also claim that current tendency for demedicalization of transsexualism and facilitation of the gender change procedure could result in decisions with negative consequences for patients’ condition. In conclusion the authors formulate recommendations for dealing with persons who seek a gender change.