Gender Dysphoria
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Gender dysphoria: A concept designated in the DSM-5 as clinically significant distress or impairment related to a strong desire to be of another gender, which may include desire to change primary and/or secondary sex characteristics. Not all transgender or gender diverse people experience dysphoria.
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Wiki Number: 20-Gender Dysphoria
Diagnosis: Adjustment Disorder
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Symptoms: emotional distress over one’s assigned gender or sex
Progression: eating disorders, depression, isolation, suicide attempts
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Medications: Hormones
Therapies: transitioning psychotherapy
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- A Critique of the GPSQ-2 Questionnaire Validation: Methodological Approaches and the Definition of Distressby None Supianto on November 20, 2024
This critique examines the validation of the Gender Preoccupation and Stability Questionnaire (GPSQ-2), focusing on methodological limitations and the narrow definition of distress. While the GPSQ-2 expands its scope to include adolescents, it overlooks broader emotional and social dimensions of gender dysphoria, such as shame and societal stigma. The critique also questions the psychometric robustness of the instrument and its reliance on a unidimensional model. Suggestions for further...
- Using youth-engaged research methods to develop a measure of disordered eating in transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse youth: Research protocolby An Pham on November 20, 2024
Transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse (TNG) youth experience disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) for reasons unique to their sociocultural positioning and the specific challenges they face, including gender dysphoria and societal beauty expectations of gender, cissexism, and lack of access to gender affirming medical care. The prevalence of DEBs is considerably and consistently higher in TNG youth compared to their cisgender peers. Nonetheless, there are no DEBs measures tailored to this...
- International study to develop a patient-reported outcome measure to evaluate outcomes of gender-affirming care - the GENDER-Qby Manraj N Kaur on November 19, 2024
CONCLUSION: The GENDER-Q was developed using extensive input from TGD individuals and clinician experts and represents the most comprehensive set of independently functioning scales that are available to date. An international field test of the GENDER-Q was completed in 2024 and the GENDER-Q is available for use in patient care, clinical research and quality improvement efforts.
- Medical Consensus on Gender Affirming Care's Critical Impact on Incarcerated Black Transgender Womenby John Parsi on November 19, 2024
In Kosilek v. Spencer the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit adopted The World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care (WPATH SOC) as medical consensus on gender affirming care and held that Michelle Kosilek could access gender affirming care but that she did not meet the criteria for gender affirming surgery. In Gibson v. Collier the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with a sparse record and no expert testimony denied Vanessa Lynn Gibson access to...