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.
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Classification
ICD-10 ChapterV: Mental and Behavioural Disorders 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route First Described Connections
Treated By
Source Chest reconstruction (Wikipedia)
Source Feminizing hormone therapy (Wikipedia)
Hormone therapy is a standard treatment option for gender dysphoria.
Source Masculinizing hormone therapy (Wikipedia)
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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)
Feminizing hormone therapy (Wikipedia)
Treated By: Feminizing Hormone Therapy, Lead: treats Gender DysphoriaQuote, Treated By: Feminizing Hormone Therapy, Lead: treats Gender Dysphoria
Feminizing hormone therapy has been empirically shown to reduce the distress and discomfort associated with gender dysphoria in transfeminine individuals.
Masculinizing hormone therapy (Wikipedia)
Treated By: Masculinizing Hormone Therapy, Lead: treats Gender DysphoriaQuote, Treated By: Masculinizing Hormone Therapy, Lead: treats Gender Dysphoria
This can alleviate gender dysphoria, and help individuals be correctly perceived as their respective gender ("passing").
Chest reconstruction (Wikipedia)
Treated By: Chest Reconstruction, Lead: treats Gender DysphoriaQuote, Treated By: Chest Reconstruction, Lead: treats Gender Dysphoria
Chest reconstruction, also known as top surgery, refers to any of various surgical procedures to reconstruct the chest by removing breast tissue or altering the nipples and areolae in order to mitigate gender dysphoria.
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