Rocznik Lubuski (t.32, cz.2): Seksualność człowieka obszary zainteresowań teoretyków i praktyków

Pod redakcją: Zbigniewa Izdebskiego

ABC... of sex

Everybody intuitively distinguishes women from men by referring to socially established stereotypes of sexuality and by observing external gender attributes. Drawing such distinctions usually helps to identify the sex of a person, but...we can also be misled. However, in order to fully determine a person´s sex we need much more information than commonly believed. That is why the author quotes the existing (handbook and encyclopaedic) gender definitions and goes on to discuss such gender criteria as chromosomal and gonadal criteria, internal and external sex organs as well as phenotypic, hormonal, metabolic, social and legal criteria and - last but not least - the brain and mental sex identity. Noteworthy are notions of gender and sexual identification; gender and sexual role, sexorientation, sexual preferences, the phenomena of ambisexuality and gender transposition. Using the gender criteria discussed earlier, the author presents the description or a definition of woman and man. In this context, he defines sexuality and concludes that eroticism is a consequence of sex differences. The author of 'ABC ... of Sex' hopes that this paper will clarify the meaning of distinctness between men and women

Recommendations of the Polish Sexological Society on medical care in transgender adults : position statement of the expert panel

Attempts at unifying the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for transgender individuals experiencing gender dysphoria were first undertaken in Poland in the 1980s. Since then, there has been a change in the perception of transgenderism, almost paradigmatic, expressed in subsequent editions of the diagnostic systems (DSM, ICD), which is also associated with the fundamental changes in the principles of conducting trans-specific healthcare. This triggered the need to formulate recommendations for specialists practicing in Poland, which would at least partly reflect the evolution of views and guidelines on clinical care in transgender adults seeking help due to gender dysphoria