Agency and communion are gender-stereotypical traits, which were explicitly designed to
capture desirable attributes of men and women, respectively. Whereas the existence of …

Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen …

In this review, I explore theoretical and empirical approaches to the development of
gender/sex and sexual orientation (SO). Leaving behind the nature versus nurture …

Gender stereotype theory suggests that men are generally perceived as more masculine
than women, whereas women are generally perceived as more feminine than men. Several …

Introduction The number of adolescents referred to specialized gender identity clinics for
gender dysphoria appears to be increasing and there also appears to be a corresponding …

Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be
produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This …

Clinical impressions indicate that there is an overrepresentation of gender-dysphoria within
the autism spectrum disorder. However, little is presently known about the demographics of …

Objective: The current study used path analysis to examine potential mechanisms through
which experiences of discrimination influence depressive and social anxiety symptoms …

Transdiagnostic mechanisms such as emotion dysregulation have been found to influence
the relationships among minority stressors and poor mental health outcomes in sexual and …

Being born a girl or a boy has implications that carry considerably beyond chromosomal,
hormonal, and genital differences. In this chapter, we consider the developmental processes …