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== Prevalence == | == Prevalence == | ||
Gender dysphoria is a rare condition, but the number of diagnosis is increasing due to the growing public awareness about it. However, this awareness doesn't avoid the prejudice and misunderstanding that many people face because of their condition. In the United Kingdom, approximately 1 in 4,000 people receive medical help for gender dysphoria, although there may be more people with gender dysphoria that don't seek medical help. On average, men are diagnosed with gender dysphoria five times more often than women.<ref name=":1" /> | Gender dysphoria is a rare condition, but the number of diagnosis is increasing due to the growing public awareness about it. However, this awareness doesn't avoid the prejudice and misunderstanding that many people face because of their condition. In the United Kingdom, approximately 1 in 4,000 people receive medical help for gender dysphoria, although there may be more people with gender dysphoria that don't seek medical help. On average, men are diagnosed with gender dysphoria five times more often than women.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
== Treatment == | |||
: ''Main article: [[Transition]]'' | |||
Before the 1960s few countries offered safe, legal medical options for people experiencing gender dysphoria and many criminalized gender-nonconforming behaviours or mandated unproven psychiatric treatments. In response to this problem, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare (WPATH) authored one of the earliest sets of clinical guidelines for the express purpose of ensuring "lasting personal comfort with the gendered self in order to maximize overall psychological well-being and self-fulfilment". The WPATH 'Standards of Care' are the most widespread clinical guidelines used by professionals working with transsexual, transgender, or gender variant people, and have undergone several revisions since its initial publication. Traditionally these guidelines have been structured in relation to the Transsexualism diagnosis and as such have presented a dilemma for non-transsexual individuals who have been unable to meet the eligibility criteria for medical treatment. | |||
In 'Archives of Sexual Behaviour (Volume 16), "Heterosexual and homosexual gender dysphoria"' (1987), Dr Ray Blanchard (who served on the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders) wrote, ''"(there is a) well-recognized tendency of applicants for sex reassignment surgery to distort their histories in the direction of 'classic' transsexualism in an effort to gain approval for such surgery"''.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01542067</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Concepts]] | [[Category:Concepts]] | ||