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Presents the 'Standards for the Treatment and Diagnostic Assessment of Transsexuals' created by an expert commission of the German Society for Sexual Research. How the first standards of care, created in 1979, have a limited applicability a German context; Diagnosis standards for transsexuality; The need for precise differential diagnosis in the field of gender identity disorders; Psychotherapy and professional recommendation; Requirements for somatic treatment and hormonal therapy; Requirements for sex reassignment surgery.