well, would you look at that. gender identity disorders are caused by mothers projecting their own mental illness onto their children.
Mothers of boys with gender identity disorder: a comparison of matched controls
This pilot study compared mothers of boys with gender identity disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys to determine whether differences in psychopathology and child-rearing attitudes and practices could be identified. Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck Depression...
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Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck Depression Inventory revealed that mothers of boys with GID had more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls.
53% of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder. Results of the Summers and Walsh Symbiosis Scale suggested that mothers of probands had child-rearing attitudes and practices that encouraged symbiosis and discouraged the development of autonomy.