'Gender identity disorder sufferers need better care'
Page last updated at 08:14 GMT, Monday, 2 August 2010 09:14 UK
By Brandice Alexander
Newsbeat reporter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/10835408Psychiatrists have told Newsbeat that young people with gender identity disorder need better treatment.
Sufferers with the disorder are unhappy being the gender they are born as.
Dr Victoria Holts is from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Clinic.
She told Newsbeat: "They [people with the disorder] shouldn't be told that it's just a phase - come back in a few years.
