‘Gender dysphoria’ refers to the distress experienced by an individual when there is a mismatch between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. One is assigned their sex based on anatomy. For most people, their gender identity corresponds with their assigned sex and such individuals grow without experiencing the distress of “feeling out of place in one’s own body.” For some, however, the difference between their gender identity and assigned sex causes extreme confusion and turmoil. Typically occurring in (but not all) transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, this can lead to them undergoing sex reassignment surgeries, hormone replacement therapy, as well as psychotherapy to cope with the distress. Previously termed "gender identity disorder," gender dysphoria is defined as a “marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth,” according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder...
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