Gender Diagnostic Criteria

This refers to one’s gender identity and to the degree to which persons see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or women in society. Masculinity and femininity are rooted in social/gender context rather than the biological context which is sexual organs. The society we live in is the one that decides what it means to be male or female.

The pro-SRS party argues that the denial of sex-reassignment surgery to trans inmates, who are in medical need of the procedure, is a direct violation of the inmates’ eighth amendment rights. The Eight Amendment reserves all inmates the right to adequate medical care and the protection from “cruel and unusual punishment”. Inmates who suffer from gender dysphoria can suffer from symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and even self-mutilation if they do not receive proper treatment in a timely manner and the prison systems have exploited this greatly. There have been cases where trans inmates do end up

-persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender of that sex.

Kristen A. Burgess, Emory University School of Medicine and Charles F Gillespie M.D., PhD, department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, state that “gender identity disorder is a mental disorder in which gender identity is incongruent with anatomical sex”. Individuals experience different degrees of unhappiness with their sex at birth, which in turn causes them to pursue the life and body of the opposite sex (2010).

only mean that a person identifies with the opposite gender. It also can be used by

A strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics, because of a marked incongruence with one’s experienced or expressed gender.

This is not the case for everyone, which is a large issue in the world today. Gender identity is someone’s perception of the sex of another person. This is heavily discussed in our society today where gender binary and the population of the transgender community grows every day. People are born male and female and conform to the way they want to be whether it be masculine or feminine. (Wood, pg. 172-173).

Gender Dysphoria, formerly known as Gender Identity Disorder, is described by the DSM-IV as a persistent and strong cross-gender identification and a persistent unease with ones sex. However, gender identity is not diagnosed as such if it is comorbid with a physical intersex condition. Gender dysphoria is not to be confused with sexual orientation, as people with gender dysphoria could be attracted to men, women, or both.

The purpose of the following paper is to investigate Gender Dysphoria. Gender Dysphoria is defined as disconnect with one’s biological sex, the desire to possess the body of the opposite sex, and also to be regarded by others as a member of the opposite sex. The parameters in defining Gender Dysphoria for the purpose of the paper is to better understand Gender Dysphoria biologically, physically, and emotionally as defined in children., adolescents, and adults.

In a variety of contexts, the word "gender" is used to describe "the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms" (Wikipedia, 2006). More specific to psychology, gender role is a term used to describe the normal behavior associated with a given gender status. Those that do not follow this customary role given to their particular gender are said to have an atypical gender role. "A person who has normal male genitalia and identifies himself as a man will usually take up a masculine gender role, a role in society that will be viewed by the other people in his society as a normal thing for a male to do. A person who has normal female genitalia and identifies herself as a woman will probably do things

Enjoyment, and/or preference for the company of the same sex…it does not necessarily involve…an explicitly erotic sexual interaction between members of the same sex (16).

Gender identity is one’s self perception, sense of belonging to being woman, man or a genderqueer (both or none). It

Gender identity is an aspect of the self that is constantly evolving. It is how you feel internally and how you choose to express your desired gender through the way you dress, the way you behave, and the way you appear to others. A majority of the population feels as if they are either a male or they are a female. Others feel like they are neither. There are a various amount of labels that can define a person who feels like they are neither male nor female such as genderqueer, gender variant, or gender fluid. One who defines as cisgender presents themselves as the gender that they were assigned at birth. How one chooses to express their gender identity is completely up to them (Sexual Orientation and Gender). At the beginning of adolescence, both boys and girls deal with “pressure to conform to culturally sanctioned gender roles” (Priess, Lindberg, Hyde, 2009). Some very important aspects of gender identity include interpersonal, family, and friend interactions, the attachment theory and self theory, cultural contexts, and gender stratification.

Male and female, that is often what one would claim as a gender. In more recent years, there has been a movement to expand what we know as the two genders. This expansion includes terms such as androgyne (someone that identifies as a unisex creature with male and female characteristics), transgender (has a certain sexes characteristics but identifies as the opposite), and demiboy (someone that partially identifies as a boy and genderless). Those are just a few of the many supposed new genders, however those are derived from mental issues. Gender dysphoria, that is the term used to describe one person who was born with certain traits, but they feel as if that is really not them. For they believe that when they were born, they were born into the wrong skin and

The Webster dictionary defines gender as the “Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture. The condition