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Experts weigh in on whether gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, and how people experiencing it can alleviate their discomfort.
Gender dysphoria is the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics. Transgender and gender-diverse people might experience gender dysphoria at some point in their lives.
“Sex” and “gender” are often used interchangeably, but they are distinct entities. It is best to distinguish between sex, gender identity, and gender expression and to avoid making assumptions about a person regarding one of these characteristics based on knowledge of the others.
A new condition called “gender dysphoria” was added to diagnose and treat those transgender individuals who felt distress at the mismatch between their identities and their bodies.
Jack Drescher, M.D. (2010) provides a thorough overview of psychiatric diagnoses related to gender identity, including the history and evolution of such conceptualizations. The medicalization of transgender identities and gender identity-related distress has been a controversial topic for decades.
Gender dysphoria used to be called “gender identity disorder.” But it’s not a mental illness. Gender dysphoria is not the same as sexual orientation.
Gender identity: How people see themselves, whether as masculine, feminine, or some other gender identity, which may or may not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth. Examples of gender-diverse identities include genderqueer, gender nonbinary, and other gender identities.
In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association has changed the diagnosis of gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria (GD). In this critical narrative review we ask: What is ...
Gender dysphoria (GD), according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5), is defined as a "marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth." It was previously termed "gender identity disorder."
Gender dysphoria is different from simply not conforming to stereotypical gender role behavior. It involves feelings of distress due to a strong, pervasive desire to be another gender. Some adolescents might express their feelings of gender dysphoria to their parents or a health care provider.