Gender Dysphoria Flashcards
Definition of what issue
Strong desire to be or the insistence that one is a gender other than the one assigned at birth.
Gender Dysphoria
Essential criterion for Gender Dysphoria is ……
the presence of clinically significant distress or impairment of functioning in one more important areas (social relationships, works, etc.).
Clinical findings of what?
(1) Cross-gender identification, anatomic dysphoria, and the desire to undergo treatments to align their physical appearance via cross-sex hormones and/or surgical interventions.
(2) Key criterion of clinically significant distress can either by from the GD itself or a consequence of others’ stigmatizing or discriminatory reactions.
gender dysphoria