Transgender Sexuality - Transvestic Fetishism

Transvestic Fetishism

The DSM has a diagnosis of transvestic fetishism. Some therapists and activists seek to de-pathologize this category in future revisions.

Following the example of the Benjamin Scale, in 1979 Buhrich and McConaghy proposed three clinically discrete categories of fetishistic transvestism: "nuclear" transvestites who were satisfied with cross-dressing, "marginal" transvestites who also desired feminization by hormones or surgical intervention, and "fetishistic transsexuals," who had shown fetishistic arousal but who identified as transsexuals and sought sex reassignment surgery.

Read more about this topic:  Transgender Sexuality