Socio-demographic portrait of transsexual patients in Russia
https://doi.org/10.21518/2079-701X-2019-6-148-153
Abstract
Transsexualism is a distress caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth. Theme of transsexualism has a strong resonance in society today. This phenomenon is significant both for the law system and for the health care system of the state. There is no statistics information on transgender people in Russian Federation. The author’s goal was to draw a socio-demographic portrait of patients with an established diagnosis of transsexualism. The following conclusions were made: the number of MtF and FtM patients searching for medical care is equal; age of the transition is 26.6 years; age of selfidentification in the opposite gender is 10.2 years; most MtF take HRT on their own initative; transsexual persons are distinguished by a high level of education, large variety of professional activities, a low percentage of registered marriages, and comparable to the general population onset of sexual life.
About the Authors
N. V. Solov’eva
Closed Joint-Stock Company «Scientific Center of Personalized Psychiatry»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Solov’eva Nadezhda Valentinovna – Psychiatrist
105082, Moscow, Bolshaya Pochtovaya St., 20, bldg. 3
E. V. Makarova
Closed Joint-Stock Company «Scientific Center of Personalized Psychiatry»;
Federal State Budgetary Institution «National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology» of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Makarova Ekaterina Vladimirovna – Endocrinologist of Closed Joint-Stock Company «Scientific Center of Personalized Psychiatry», researcher of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «National Medical Research Center of Rehabilitation and Resortology» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
105082, Moscow, Bolshaya Pochtovaya St., 20, bldg. 3,
121099, Moscow, Novyi Arbat St., Moscow, Russia 32
V. B. Vil’yanov
Closed Joint-Stock Company «Scientific Center of Personalized Psychiatry»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vil’yanov Vladimir Borisovich – Dr. of Sci. (Med), professor, psychiatrist
105082, Moscow, Bolshaya Pochtovaya St., 20, bldg. 3
S. A. Kremenitskaya
Closed Joint-Stock Company «Scientific Center of Personalized Psychiatry»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kremenitskaya Svetlana Anatol’evna – Psychiatrist
105082, Moscow, Bolshaya Pochtovaya St., 20, bldg. 3
S. V. Chausova
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Chausova Svetlana Vital’evna – Dr. of Sci. (Med), Professor, Head of the Department of General Pathology at the MBF
117997, Moscow, Ostrovityanova St., 1
I. V. Kichuk
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kichuk Irina Viktorovna – Candidate of Biologcal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology
117997, Moscow, Ostrovityanova St., 1
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Solov’eva NV, Makarova EV, Vil’yanov VB, Kremenitskaya SA, Chausova SV, Kichuk IV. Socio-demographic portrait of transsexual patients in Russia. Meditsinskiy sovet = Medical Council. 2019;(6):148-153. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21518/2079-701X-2019-6-148-153
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