On the PC main page about different condition, gender identity disorder is listed under sexual disorders. In case you did not know this, GID starts in childhood, long before someone gets sexual. It has to do with a person's identifying with being male or female (or bi- or agender). It has to do with what is expected of you as a boy or girl, and if the wrong thing is expected of you, you experience gender dysphoria.

In early years it can be how the child is dressed, what toys to play with and whom to play with. In later life it can be choice of education and choice of career. A transgendered male to female might not have to like all girly stuff but he WILL get in trouble if he does. The core is what gender you feel you are.

That is much different from sexual disorders which have to do with people having unusual SEXUAL preferences, like fetishism or even pedophilia.

Sexuality is just secondary in GID, same as to any person. A GID person can be straight, gay, bi or asexual, just like anyone else. So it is not being sexually unusual or disordered.

In DSM IV the headline for these condition is "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders", so NOT just sexual disorders.

It bothers me that such misinformation is on a site like this.