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the desire to be seen and treated as another gender by society the conviction that one already feels and acts like a different gender The main symptoms of gender dysphoria in children are: a strong and prolonged stance that one is a different gender and/or a desire to pretend play as anoth...
Gender dysphoria (GD), also known as gender identity disorder (GID), formal diagnosis given by mental health professionals to people who experience distress because of a significant incongruence between the gender with which they personally identify and
My mother passed away in 2010, and in a way I’m glad that happened before I discovered any of this, because I would have been angry with her and she didn’t deserve that. She did her best to be a good mother to me and to all her other children, and I don’t hold her respons...
While not all children or adults who identify as transgender or intersex choose the long and difficult path of gender reassignment, some will choose surgical gender reassignment or hormonal treatment at some stage of their lives. In cases where it is proposed that a minor undergo such treatment,...
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Thursday's votes came after House and Senate sponsors worked out differences in earlier versions of the bill. The issue centers, at least in part, on treatment for gender dysphoria, which the federal government defines clinically as "significant distress that a person may feel when sex or gender...
This commentary grows out of an interdisciplinary workshop focused on controversies surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder (BP) in children. Although debate about the occurrence and frequency of BP in children is more than 50 years o
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Members of the LGBTQ+ community have unique health needs and risks that they have to be aware of to stay healthy. In addition to risks that affect all men and women regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, such as heart disease and cancer, people in the LGBTQ+ community may fac...