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gender dysphoria
Sign in to saveAlso known as gender incongruence, GD, gender-role dysphoria
mental distress resulting from mismatch between gender identity and gender assigned at birth
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , psychology , sexology
- Symptoms
- Distress related to one's assigned gender, sex or sex characteristics
- Complications
- Eating disorders , suicide , depression , anxiety , social isolation
- Differential diagnosis
- Variance in gender identity or expression that is not distressing, psychotic disorders , body dysmorphic disorder , transvestic disorder
- Treatment
- Transitioning , gender-affirming care , psychotherapy
- Medication
- Hormones (e.g., androgens , antiandrogens , estrogens )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
3,436 papers- Gender dysphoria in childhood.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2016
- Gender Dysphoria and DNA.Psychiatria Danubina · 2023
- Epidemiology of gender dysphoria and transgender identity.Sexual health · 2017
- The phenomenology of gender dysphoria in adults: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.Clinical psychology review · 2020
- Mental health and gender dysphoria: A review of the literature.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2016
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- dysphoria
- Has part
- gender dysphoria in children
- Image
- Sad Transgender Boy in Dress.png
- Said to be same as
- gender incongruence
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- different from
- gender self-identification
- health specialty
- sexology
- ICPC 2 ID
- P09
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1234
- possible treatment
- psychotherapy
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Psychology
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- gender-affirming surgery
- studied by
- gender studies
- opposite of
- gender euphoria
- Commons category
- Gender dysphoria
- has cause
- gender incongruence
- symptoms and signs
- suicidal ideation
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Encyclopedic overview
Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to inconsistency between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth. The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder (GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5. The condition was renamed to remove the stigma associated with the term disorder. The ICD-11, which does not consider it a mental disorder, uses the term gender incongruence (GI) instead of gender dysphoria, defined as a marked and persistent mismatch between gender identity and assigned sex, regardless of distress or impairment.
Not all transgender people have gender dysphoria. Gender nonconformity is not the same thing as gender dysphoria and does not always lead to dysphoria or distress. In pre-pubertal youth, the diagnoses are gender dysphoria in childhood and gender incongruence of childhood. The causes of gender incongruence are unknown but a gender identity likely reflects genetic, biological, environmental, and cultural factors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gender dysphoria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.