Eine Studie zur Vererbbarkeit von Geschlechtsidentitätsstörungen:
The heritability and prevalence of the gender identity disorder (GID) was examined, as well as its comorbidity with separation anxiety and depression, in a nonretrospective study of child and adolescent twins. The parents of 314 twins (ages 4–17 years; 96 monozygotic pairs [MZ] and 61 dizygotic [DZ] pairs) completed the Coolidge Personality and Neuropsychological Inventory (CPNI) containing a six-item DSM-IV-based GID scale. Prevalence of clinically significant GID symptomatology in the twin sample was estimated to be 2.3%. Univariate model fitting analyses were conducted using an ordinal transformation of the GID scale. The model that best described the data included a significant additive genetic component accounting for 62% of the variance and a nonshared environmental component accounting for the remaining 38% of the variance. Results suggested no heterogeneity in the parameter estimates resulting from age. The correlation between GID and depression was modest, but significant (r = .20; P < .05),=““ whereas=““ the=““ correlation=““ between=““ gid=““ and=““ separation=““ anxiety=““ was=““ nonsignificant=““>P > .05). Overall, the results support the hypothesis that there is a strong heritable component to GID. The findings may also imply that gender identity may be much less a matter of choice and much more a matter of biology.
Quelle: The Heritability of Gender Identity Disorder in a Child and Adolescent Twin Sample
Wenn Geschlechtsidentitätsstörungen vererbbar sind, dann muss allerdings auch die geschlechtliche Identität eine biologische Basis haben. Meine Vermutung wäre allerdings, dass Zwillingsstudien in der feministischen Literatur sehr selten auftauchen. Das die Auswirkungen einer Erziehung gerne zugunsten der Auswirkungen der Gene überschätzt wird (es wird angenommen, dass das Kind so ist, weil seine Eltern es so erzogen haben, dabei ist es so, weil es die Gene seiner Eltern hat, die zu einem gleichen Verhalten wie bei seinen Eltern führen).