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Current research into transsexualism focus on the brain as the organ of sexual differentiation ie., brain-sex.

2004

[external link] Atypical Gender Development - A Review, The Gender Identity Research & Education Society (2004)

2002

(136 KB) Definition and Synopsis of the Etiology of Adult Gender Identity Disorder and Transsexualism — GIRES (2002)

(240 KB) A Conversation with Dr Milton Diamond by Dean Kotula — Dr Milton Diamond (2002)

2001

(64.0 KB) Structural and Functional Sex Differences in the Human Hypothalamus — Dick F. Swaab, Wilson C. J. Chung, Frank P. M. Kruijver, Michel A. Hofman and Tatjana A. Ishunina (2001)

2000

(888 KB) Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus, Frank P. M. Kruijver, Jiang-Ning Zhou, Chris W. Pool, Michel A. Hofman, Louis Gooren and Dick F. Swaab (2000)

(208 KB) Sex and Gender: The Same or Different? — Diamond, Milton (2000)

1999

(192 KB) Expert Witness Statement — Gooren, LJG (1999)

1998

(256 KB) Sexual Differentiation of the Central Nervous System — Roger A. Gorski (1998)

1996

(88.0 KB) Transsexualism - The Current Medical Viewpoint (1996)

1995

(216 KB) A Sex Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to Transsexuality — J.-N. Zhou, M.A. Hofman, Louis Gooren and D.F. Swaab (1995)

1993

(120 KB) 'Biological Aspects of Transsexualism and their relevance to its legal aspects', Proceedings of the XXIIIrd Colloquy on European Law — Gooren, LJG (1993)

The researchers & clinicians

Dr. Milton Diamond is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality. He currently directs the John A. Burns School of Medicine's Pacific Center for Sex and Society, and is known for his research on the origins of sexual identity. Prof Diamond is a member of the MTRA Advisory panel.
Website http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/

Professor Louis Gooren is an endocrinologist and held the world's only chair in transsexuality, at the Vri je Universiteit, Amsterdam (Netherlands) until he retired in 2004.

Roger A. Gorski is professor of neurobiology and director of the UCLA Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.
Website http://www.bri.ucla.edu/?FaID=947

The Gender Identity Research & Education Society, UK was founded in 1997 to inform a wide public of the issues surrounding gender identity and transsexualism.
Website http://www.gires.org.uk/

Dick F. Swaab is Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Website http://www.nih.knaw.nl/

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