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3 - Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in Psychology

from Part I - History and Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Sonja J. Ellis ,
Damien W. Riggs  and
Elizabeth Peel
Sonja J. Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Damien W. Riggs
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
Elizabeth Peel
Affiliation:
Loughborough University
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Summary

This chapter provides a socio-historical account of the pathologisation and de-pathologisation of diversity in sex, gender, and sexuality within and beyond psychology. Focusing on people born with intersex variations, a diversity of genders, and a diversity of sexual orientations (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer), this chapter first maps the socio-medicalisation of sex, gender, and sexuality to explore the pathologisation of LGBTIQ people across time. Next, the chapter maps the socio-historical de-pathologisation of sex, gender, and sexual diversity and the development of LGBTIQ psychology as an affirmative field. Different approaches to the treatment of LGBTIQ people in healthcare and the development of professional psychological networks that focus on LGBTIQ psychology are presented.

Keywords

pathologisationsocio-medicalisationsocio-historical de-pathologisationLGBTIQ psychologyLGBTIQ-affirmativeconversion therapy
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
An Introduction
 , pp. 38 - 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Barker, M. J. (2018). The psychology of sex (The psychology of everything). London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Clarke, V., & Peel, E. (2007). From lesbian and gay psychology to LGBTQ psychologies: A journey into the unknown (or unknowable)? In Clarke, V. & Peel, E. (Eds.), Out in psychology: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer perspectives (pp. 11–35). Chichester: Wiley.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Drescher, J. (2015). Queer diagnoses revisited: The past and future of homosexuality and gender diagnoses in DSM and ICD. International Review of Psychiatry, 27(5), 386–395.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kitzinger, C., & Coyle, A. (2002). Introducing lesbian and gay psychology. In Coyle, A. & Kitzinger, C. (Eds.), Lesbian and gay psychology: New perspectives (pp. 1–29). Oxford: BPS Blackwell.Google Scholar
Riggs, D. W., Pearce, R., Pfeffer, C., Hines, S., White, F., & Ruspini, E. (2019). Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Standards of Care. American Psychologist, 74, 912–924.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Roen, K., & Pasterski, V. (2014). Psychological research and intersex/DSD: Recent developments and future directions. Psychology & Sexuality, 5(1), 102–116.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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