As with trans, intersex people have long resented and resisted the medical pathologisation that comes from theInternational Classification of Diseases(ICD) and the US DSM, now on version 5 which refers to intersex persons as having “Disorders of Sex Development” (DSD). Whilst this may sound ...
(2015 p. 203) report that «in the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), a comprehensive classification of psychological conditions and mental disorders that reflects the most up-to-date medical understandings, gender identity disorder has been replaced with gender ...
Health outcomes across the physical and mental health domains were assessed using survey items which asked participants to disclose whether they had ever received a diagnosis, suspected the condition, or whether a healthcare provider had recommended an assessment, for each condition. Further information ...
We did also not enroll control subjects taking regular medications (except for contraceptives), with any history of psychiatric in-patient treatment, or an ambulatory consultation due to a mental illness during the preceding 10 years. Gender identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire and Utrecht Gender ...
Gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual, a reference guide published by the American Psychiatric Association for research and clinical use) as a mental illness, and for good reason, as distress regarding one’s gender identity is a real phenomenon. However, this does...
“‘…rather than being grateful for any help they are given, transsexuals today are questioning the authority of the medical and mental-health professionals who function as gatekeepers of sex reassignment…'” The regulations imposed on transsexuals do not always present them with the obstacles that...
We did also not enroll control subjects taking regular medications (except for contraceptives), with any history of psychiatric in-patient treatment, or an ambulatory consultation due to a mental illness during the preceding 10 years. Gender identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire and Utrecht Gender ...
most closely associated with being transgender is “gender dysphoria,” defined as “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender.” The DSM further clarifies that “gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder....
The diagnosis of gender dysphoria is new to DSM-5 to allow for treatment if TIs suffers from distress due to incoherence between perceived gender and biological sex. Our results could relieve distress in transgender patients in case of the experience of guilt or shame due to the discrepancy ...
and dysphoria and resolving that cause itself instead of validating my mental illness and okaying a lifetime of hormones, mutilation, and sterilization was paramount. For the first few sessions I was still angry about the therapistchoice, but once I began to open up, I was surprised to ...