Gender Dysphoria Flashcards
Biological indicators of male and female, such as in sex chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia
Sex
Lived role in society and/or the identification as male or female could not be uniformly associated with or predicted from the biological indicators
Gender
Initial assignment as male or female, occurs usually at birth (natal gender)
Gender assignment
Somatic features or behaviors that are not typical of individuals with the same assigned gender in a given society and historical era
Gender-atypical / Gender-nonconforming
Official and legal change of gender
Gender reassignment
Category of social identity and refers to an individual’s identification as male, female or some category other than male or female
Gender identity
General term for individual’s affective/cognitive discontent with the assigned gender
Gender dysphoria
Broad spectrum of individuals who transiently or persistently identify with a gender different from their natal gender
Transgender
Individual who seeks, or has undergone, a social transition from male to female (or vice-versa) which usually involves cross-sex hormone treatment and genital surgery
Transsexual
Clinically significant distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender (at least 6 symptoms in children, 2 symptoms in adolescents and adults for at least 6 months)
Gender Dysphoria
Related gender dysphoria symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician specifies the reason
Other Specified Gender Dysphoria
(e.g. brief gender dysphoria
Related gender dysphoria symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician does not choose to communicate the reason, possibly due to insufficient information
Unspecified Gender Dysphoria
