Gender Dysphoria, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

This book describes Gender Dysphoria, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

A person belongs to the gender he or she feels inside him or her.

Gender dysphoria happens when a person has a deep discomfort and distress about the gender they were born with since it does not match their gender identity.

A person who was physically born female instead has a deep inner feeling of being male.

This mismatch causes severe discomfort, anxiety, and depression.

Typically, children are allocated their gender at birth based on their anatomy and chromosomes.

For most children, this gender allocation corresponds to their gender identity, an internal sense of identifying oneself as male or female.

Some children might feel strangeness and grow into transgender adults.

Gender dysphoria (GD) according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM 5) is depicted as a “marked difference between their knowledge or expressed gender and the one they were allocated at birth.”

It was formerly termed "gender identity disorder."

Children or adolescents who feel this turmoil cannot link to their gender expression when recognizing themselves within traditional societal binary male or female parts, which may induce cultural stigmatization.

This can further result in relationship conflicts with family, peers, friends in different aspects of their daily lives and cause:
1. Rejection from society,
2. Interpersonal conflicts,
3. Symptoms of depression and anxiety
4. Substance use disorders,
5. A negative sense of well-being and poor self-esteem, and
6. Higher risk of self-harm and suicide.

There should more awareness created to perceive gender expression as a continuum from male to female rather than fixed binary norms.

This might help society to understand the population and reduce the burden of mental health problems produced by the linked stigma.

The term gender should not be confused with a person’s sexual direction.

A transgender man (biological female) may categorize himself as heterosexual and still be sexually engrossed with women and vice versa.

People who have gender dysphoria believe stoutly that their gender does not equal their biology.

A person who has a penis and all other physical traits of a male might feel instead that he is really a female.

The person can have an intense wish to have a female body and to be acknowledged by others as a female.

Or someone with the physical features of a female would feel her true identity is male.

Feeling that the body does not indicate the true gender can induce severe distress, anxiety, and depression.

"Dysphoria" is a sensation of dissatisfaction, anxiety, and restlessness.

With gender dysphoria, the distress with the male or female body can be so serious that it can disrupt the normal life, at school or work or during social activities.

Gender dysphoria was known as “gender identity disorder.”

The mismatch between body and internal feeling of gender is not a mental sickness.

Instead, what need to be treated are the stress, anxiety, and depression that go along with it.

The disorder has been called “transsexualism” an outdated offensive term

Now “transgender” is used to depict someone who feels his or her body and gender do not match.

Gender nonconforming (GNC) is a broader term that can involve people with gender dysphoria.

But it can also depict people who feel that they are neither only male nor only female.

People who identify with both genders or with neither gender may call themselves "gender queer."

Gender dysphoria is not homosexuality.

The internal sense of the gender is not the same as the sexual orientation.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Gender Dysphoria
Chapter 2 Causes
Chapter 3 Symptoms
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
Chapter 5 Treatment
Chapter 6 Prognosis
Chapter 7 Klinefelter Syndrome
Chapter 8 Personality Disorders
Epilogue