Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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The Relationship Between Estrogen Receptor-Beta (Er-ß) And Androgen Receptor (Ar) With Transgender Psychological Condition In Bandung

Transgender is self-identification which uncomfortable with one’s own body and longing to live in cross-gender lives that thought to be related with sex hormone receptors changes such as estrogen receptor-ß (ER-ß) and androgen receptor (AR). Our aims to determine correlation ER-ß and AR with psychological conditions among transgender in Bandung. We included 25 transgender male-to-female, 26 normal male, aged = 17 years, either as male-to-female transgender or normal male tendencies, undergo biological and psychological examinations including blood tests and MMPI test. The average age were 23.6 years among transgender, 28.76 years among normal male;ER-ß in normal male 0.02-4.5 and transgender 0.08-9.03 (p=0.621); AR in normal male 0.18-8.16 and transgender 0,44-6,02 (p=0,867); the average intrapersonal score was 3.2800±1.09244 slightly less than the normal male at 3.3022(±1.41959) (p= 0.533); the intrapersonal relationship score in transgender was 2.8400 (±0.95710) which was less than the normal male at 2.8558 (±1.29455) (p=0.733); the average score of work capacity category in the transgender was 2.6800± (1.10755) whereas that in the normal male was 3.0577±1.42707 (p=0,298). There was no correlation between ER-ß and AR and transgender psychologic tendencies. Thus, genetic factors seems to have no role in the development of deviant sexual behavior in transgender people.