Jim Beaux
10-14-2008, 06:08 PM
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Prevalence/Reports/REFs/bakker1993.pdf
From “The Prevalence of Transsexualism in the Netherlands”, Bakker et al, published in 1993, full paper at link above.
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Transsexuals were counted as those meeting 4 criteria
- a sense of belonging to the opposite sex, of having been born into the wrong sex, of being one of nature’s extant errors
- a sense of estrangement from one’s own body, all indications of sex differentiation being considered as afflictions and repugnant
- a strong desire to resemble the opposite sex physically via therapy, including surgery
- a desire to be accepted by the community as belonging to the opposite sex.
Those meeting the criteria and having started hormone treatment were counted as transsexual.
Since 1984, the law enables a change of legal sex status, and the costs of sex reassignment are fully reimbursed.
97% of all hormonally treated transsexuals were treated at the centre where the figures are derived.
In 1988 figures were reported for the incidence of transsexualism using cases that presented for sex reassignment between 1976 and 1986. At that time, the estimate was 1:18,000 mtf and 1:54,000 ftm.
Figures reported by Tsoi for Singapore in 1986 were much higher.
Dutch figures for the end of 1990 were 507 mtf and 206 ftm transsexuals. These give prevalence at mtf 1:11,900 and ftm 1:30,400.
The figures are still only a quarter of the prevalence rate reported by Tsoi for Singapore.
From “The Prevalence of Transsexualism in the Netherlands”, Bakker et al, published in 1993, full paper at link above.
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Transsexuals were counted as those meeting 4 criteria
- a sense of belonging to the opposite sex, of having been born into the wrong sex, of being one of nature’s extant errors
- a sense of estrangement from one’s own body, all indications of sex differentiation being considered as afflictions and repugnant
- a strong desire to resemble the opposite sex physically via therapy, including surgery
- a desire to be accepted by the community as belonging to the opposite sex.
Those meeting the criteria and having started hormone treatment were counted as transsexual.
Since 1984, the law enables a change of legal sex status, and the costs of sex reassignment are fully reimbursed.
97% of all hormonally treated transsexuals were treated at the centre where the figures are derived.
In 1988 figures were reported for the incidence of transsexualism using cases that presented for sex reassignment between 1976 and 1986. At that time, the estimate was 1:18,000 mtf and 1:54,000 ftm.
Figures reported by Tsoi for Singapore in 1986 were much higher.
Dutch figures for the end of 1990 were 507 mtf and 206 ftm transsexuals. These give prevalence at mtf 1:11,900 and ftm 1:30,400.
The figures are still only a quarter of the prevalence rate reported by Tsoi for Singapore.