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Gender Dysphoria

Gender Dysphoria

Q For quite some time, controversy has surrounded the inclusion of gender dysphoria as a diagnostic category in the DSM. In other words, people (including psychiatrists, psychologists, transgender individuals, and many others) have debated whether or not gender dysphoria should even be considered a psychological disorder in the first place. What is your opinion on this issue? (In answering this question, you should use details of Chris' case, other information you have already learned in the course such as the 4 Ds, as well as your own opinion.)

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Gender dysphoria is the case where the person does not feel like belonging to the gender what the society has assigned to him or her or the gender to which the person’s biological sexuality relates to. The diagnosis of gender dysphonia according to the diagnosis of the DSM 5 criteria is related to the different cases where the person feels to be another gender. The person feels to be more like a gender that the person does not relate with biologically. The different factors about the gender dysphonic people are related to the primary and secondary sexual characteristics of the particular person.