Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Eat Disord. 2012;20(4):300-11. doi: 10.1080/10640266.2012.668482.
The association between disordered eating and gender identity was examined in a sample of 20 (11 female-to-male, 9 male-to-female) transgender Finnish adults, aged 21-62 years. Using semi-structured interviews, participants' own understanding of the underlying causes of their disordered eating was analyzed, as well as the effect of gender reassignment on eating behaviors and cognitions. A majority of the participants reported current or past disordered eating. Participants most frequently described strive for thinness as an attempt to suppress features of one's biological gender, or accentuate features of one's desired gender. Gender reassignment was primarily perceived as alleviating symptoms of disordered eating.
在一项针对 20 名（11 名女变男，9 名男变女）芬兰跨性别成年人的样本中，研究了饮食失调与性别认同之间的关系，这些成年人年龄在 21-62 岁之间。通过半结构化访谈，分析了参与者对其饮食失调根本原因的理解，以及性别重置对其饮食行为和认知的影响。大多数参与者报告存在或曾经存在饮食失调。参与者最常描述的是追求苗条，这是试图抑制一个人的生物学性别特征，或突出其期望的性别特征。性别重置主要被视为缓解饮食失调症状的一种方式。
