ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to report a young person with mixed gonadal dysgenesis with multiple behavioural and emotional problems, but in whom there was no gender identity conflict. Professionals must appreciate the predicament of parents and children through the unfolding process of development from birth, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. The development of preference in relation to the object of sexual desire occurs through childhood but becomes a far more pressing issue at puberty and through adolescence. The chapter also aims to appreciate that the intersex conditions present greater complexity for children, adolescents, and their families in their development and that consequently there needs to be greater flexibility in thinking. Clinical work with young people and their parents in the area of intersex disorders demands a clear understanding of different aspects of psychosexual development to help parents disentangle these for and with their children.
