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  1. Letters can be submitted to the Editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior at Ken.Zucker@camh.ca. Letters should be no more than 10 pages in length, double-spaced, with the use of APA reference style.

  2. Subsequently published in Coleman et al. (2011).

  3. These figures are not reproduced here but can be found in Zucker (2010).

  4. This proposal did not make its way into the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Instead, the DSM-5 adopted a common template with regard to distress/impairment across most diagnoses: “The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, school, or other important areas of functioning” or “The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

  5. “…differences in casual mechanisms…” could have been phrased as “differences in developmental pathways.”

  6. In Dr. Drescher’s response to a query from the Board of Trustees, he wrote that “The absence of a sexual orientation specifier should not inhibit research in this area, any more than the absence of a ‘gender specifier’ for Major Depression or Schizophrenia inhibits research on sex differences in those (or any other) diagnostic categories.”

  7. The word “concern” would have been preferable to “suspicion.”

  8. The material in this section was drawn from Lawrence and Zucker (2012).

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  1. Gender Identity Service, Child, Youth, and Family Services, Underserved Populations Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada

    Kenneth J. Zucker

  2. Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Social Work, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Jack Drescher

  4. New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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  5. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Friedemann Pfäfflin

  6. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    William M. Womack

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Zucker, K.J., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T., Drescher, J. et al. Memo Outlining Evidence for Change for Gender Identity Disorder in the DSM-5. Arch Sex Behav 42, 901–914 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0139-4

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