TY - JOUR AU - Nenga, Sandi PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Using a Unit on Gender Identity Disorder to Teach About Social Control JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/using-a-unit-on-gender-identity-disorder-to-teach SP - AB - While teaching undergraduate courses on Deviance at Southwestern University and Indiana University, I have used a unit on gender identity disorder to teach concepts related to social control. Although gender identity disorder is difficult to define, it is a psychiatric disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual that is applied to individuals who exhibit cross-gender behavior and often express the desire to become the other sex. This unit, as I taught it, focused on the diagnosis as applied to children and adolescents who exhibited gender deviance. ER -