Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages xv-xx, October 2011
Richard R. Pleak, MD
http://www.childpsych.theclinics.com/article/S1056-4993%2811%2900080-0/fulltextThis issue is the third since the beginning of the Child and Adolescents Psychiatric Clinics of North America in 1992 to deal substantially with gender identity issues in youth. The first was Volume 2(3), Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, in 1993; the second was Volume 13(3), Sex and Gender, in 2004. Two authors in the Volume 2, 1993 issue are contributors here: Drs Zucker and Meyer-Bahlburg; two authors in the Volume 13, 2004 issue are contributors here: Drs Zucker and Reiner. This issue differs from the others in being exclusively about gender identity issues: gender variance and ->-bleeped-<-. The consulting Clinics editor, Dr Harsh Trivedi, identified a need for this issue in light of recent developments in the field and the increasing numbers of mental health clinicians requesting more information pertaining to these youth.
