Gender dysphoria is the clinically significant distress or impairment that can result from an incongruence between a person's experienced or expressed gender and the sex they were assigned at birth. The DSM-5 diagnosis, introduced in 2013 to replace the earlier gender identity disorder category, describes the distress itself, rather than the identity, as the clinical concern, reflecting a shift in psychiatric classification away from framing a transgender identity itself as a disorder.
Facts
Classification
ICD-10 ChapterV: Mental and Behavioural Disorders 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route First Described Connections
Treated By
Hormone therapy is a standard treatment option for gender dysphoria.
Sources
1. Wikidata: Gender Dysphoria
WikidataWikidata P279 (disease-category: non-communicable)
Subclass of: mental disorder
Wikidata P279 (body-system: nervous)
Subclass of: mental disorder
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter VQuote, List of chapters, Chapter V
Mental and behavioural disorders
3. Gender Dysphoria (Wikipedia)
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