OnlineMedEd: Psychiatry - Gender Dysphoria

Question 1

What’s the difference between the term transgender and transsexual?

Answer 1

Transgender implies that the person identifies different than the gender that they were assigned at birth (their body). Transsexual means that the person has made physical or social changes to reassign their gender.

Question 2

What is the definition of transvestitism?

Answer 2

Dressing opposite your identified gender associated with sexual arousal

Question 3

Explain the diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

Answer 3

When a person believes they are not the gender they were assigned at birth and it causes distress

• Must last greater than six months
• Desire to rid themselves of secondary sexual characteristics

Question 4

Before getting surgery, it is recommended that people get _______________.

Answer 4

intensive psychotherapy to confirm that they have gender dysphoria