Gender dysphoria: Difference between revisions

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Gender dysphoria refers to negative feelings arising from some aspect of gender experience, possibly including but not limited to:

An assigned gender different from one's gender identity
Body dysphoria, where one’s sexual characteristics seem wrong
Other’s perceptions of one’s gender
Social treatment related to perceived or assigned gender

The term gender dysphoria can be used diagnostically, referring to persistent and clinically significant discomfort with an assigned gender, or to refer to individual instances of gender dysphoria, as in, “Calling someone by the wrong pronouns can evoke gender dysphoria.”

Healthcare professionals typically reference either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in order to confirm a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

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-Gender Dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder (GID), is a disorder in which a person feels distress due to gender and sex incongruence. Distress commonly takes the form of depression and or anxiety.
+'''Gender dysphoria''' refers to negative feelings arising from some aspect of gender experience, possibly including but not limited to:
+* An [[Sex#Gender assigned at birth|assigned gender]] different from one's [[gender identity]]
-Treatment for GID usually involves transitioning the sex to align with the gender. Transitioning may include hormone replacement therapy or sexual reassignment surgery.
+* Body dysphoria, where one’s sexual characteristics seem wrong
+* Other’s perceptions of one’s [[gender]]
+* Social treatment related to perceived or assigned gender
+The term gender dysphoria can be used diagnostically, referring to persistent and clinically significant discomfort with an assigned gender, or to refer to individual instances of gender dysphoria, as in, “Calling someone by the wrong pronouns can evoke gender dysphoria.”
+Healthcare professionals typically reference either the [http://web.archive.org/web/20160929074553/http://www.dsm5.org/about/Pages/Default.aspx Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)] or the [http://web.archive.org/web/20160929074553/http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ International Classification of Diseases (ICD)] in order to confirm a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
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