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*Social treatment related to perceived or assigned gender
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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.”
The term gender dysphoria can 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://www.dsm5.org/about/Pages/Default.aspx Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)] or the [http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ International Classification of Diseases (ICD)] in order to confirm a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
It can also be used diagnostically, referring to persistent and clinically significant discomfort with an assigned gender. Healthcare professionals typically reference either the [http://www.dsm5.org/about/Pages/Default.aspx Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)] or the [http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ International Classification of Diseases (ICD)] in order to confirm a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.


==Terminology==
==Terminology==
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