Measuring Masculine Gender Identity in Females

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Bibliography: Blanchard, R., Freund, K., 1983. Measuring Masculine Gender Identity in Females. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 51.

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First-page: 205

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& n the present article, masculine (cross) gender identity is the label provisionally applied to a hypothetical factor that accounts for that covariation in male sex-typed behaviors observable within the population of anatomical females. (p. 205)
Theory in my own scale that cannot be confirmed.:
- & Masculine gender identity in females and its counterpart, feminine gender identity in males, will be referred to collectively as cross-gender identity. Crossgender identity is conceived here as a continuous variable, with the greatest degree of cross-gender identity expected among transsexuals, that is, individuals whose strong and persistent desire to possess the body of the opposite anatomical sex is accompanied by feelings of being the opposite sex in all but external appearance. (p. 205)