Gender Dysphoria In Adolescents

In the United States Transgender women (individuals who are sex-assigned male at birth but identify as female) experience high rates of severe depression due to pervasive discrimination that they face in society. According to Hoffman (2014), when compared to the general population, Transgender individuals experience much higher rates of depression with estimates as high as 62% (as cited in Clements-Noel, Marx, Guzman, and Katz, 2001). Due to these high rates of depression, Transgender women are at increased risk for overall negative health outcomes, which severely limits them from living happy, healthy, and productive lives. According to studies by Nemoto, Operario, Keatley, Nguyen, and Sugano, (2005) there is a growing understanding of the

Most gender dysphoric individuals can find relief from Hormone Replacement Therapy to assist in transitioning to the desired gender, while satisfaction is high at the end, there is unaffected depression left over with seemingly no explanation. He acknowledged that “There is a wide and potentially confounding range of variables in defining childhood abuse (age and gender of a child, nature, severity, and frequency of abuse and neglect, perpetrators, circumstances, cultural, linguistic and economic factors.), GD (type, degree or ‘severity’) and depression (type, onset, duration,

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism published an article by Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis and Daniel Klink titled Adolescents with gender dysphoria in 2015. The article discusses the increase of youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receiving medical treatment and possibly surgery as well. The authors stressed the importance for psychotherapy and/or family therapy. The article also discussed the factors that influence gender development psychological, social, and biological. There are not many studies on determinants of gender dysphoria, and no epidemiological studies in children younger than 15 exist at all. Although, more recently research has focused on histological and brain imagining studies on individuals diagnosed

Gender Dysphoria is a name given to the condition of children who express a gender that is opposite of their biologically given gender. Children and teens who present and verbalize the desire to be of the opposite gender for at least six months are then diagnosed and treated medically. This issue is ethically controversial due to many parents, medical doctors, mental professionals, and myself believing that biological gender identification is not fully understood until puberty has taken place, noticing that children are exposed to transgender terminology and situations on the internet that are persuasive and confusing, and being concerned about the medications used to treat a disorder that can barely be explained and is misunderstood. Medications such as hormone blockers and opposite-sex hormones have become readily available to them without any long term testing. Not only should parents, doctors, professionals, and society be concerned about the safety of these medications, we should be asking ourselves, is gender dysphoria even a medical condition that should be treated with drugs or is it a psychological disorder that should be treated with therapy? Gender Dysphoria is a condition in children and teens that the general population does not understand, however, after doing research I believe the definition of gender dysphoria is

Many people today aren’t being educated about the topic of sex and gender, and they’ll end up living naïve and ignorant lives, but for some it can even be harmful. For some, their sex and gender don’t match up and they will experience gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria can cause a lot of psychological problems for a person, especially if it isn’t treated. Unfortunately, because of the lack of sex and gender education, some people who experience gender dysphoria don’t even know its existence, which can lead to anxiety, depression, and maybe even

Gender dysphoria might cause people to misinterpret a person’s sexual orientation and or preferences. In addition, it causes a person to be very confuse about who they are, and who they identify as. With that being said, at what age should children be allowed to surgically transition into the gender that they are more comfortable with, and wants to be associated as? Furthermore, is it mentally, sexually, and physically healthy for an adult who suffers from gender dysphoria to raise children?

In the article "Gender Dysphoria and Children" Chance Nicholson, an instructor, and Dr. Teena McGuinness, a professor, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Nursing, discuss and explore present literature related to the gender reassignment process and diagnostic displays behind the proper age for intervention. They stated that ongoing research implies that it may be possible to validate gender dysphoria at an earlier age. They acknowledge that there is very limited research available on children and gender dysphoria, and also stated that a childhood diagnosis should not be deemed definitive; more accurately, it should function as a basis for additional assessment and management. Although preliminary studies show that early interventions seem to improve the quality of life of those who are transgender, the point of

Gender dysphoria is very stressful to the individual. It can potentially lead to internal struggles of trying to find their identity, problems with their family, problems with their partner, or even not being accepted by their peers or by society. This is why around

Gender Dysphoria is described as “the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex.” according to google.For me, it's knowing that during any moment there's a chance that I will experience some kind of dysphoria in relation to my body and expression. I've never really thought about my gender because I didn't have the vocabulary to describe how I felt. I identify as genderfluid; it took me all of high school to discover and accept this about myself. It wasn’t until one of my classmates came out as a non-binary trans boy, that I started to find the words to how I’ve been feeling.

Feeling discomfort with one’s assigned gender has been something talked about in the mental health industry for many years. Gender Identity Disorders (GID) is when an individual finds conflict between their own gender and the gender he or she identifies as. Gender dysphoria is a condition of GID, in which ones’ emotional and psychological identity is opposite of one’s biological sex. Gender dysphoric children and adolescents are vulnerable to many forms of emotional distress such as depression. Children and adolescents experiencing this condition can have a troublesome time due to the lack of awareness there is to the existing information of this disorder. There are many risk factors that research says contributes to those who struggle with

The main focus of this article is to look at how suffering with Gender Dysphoria can affect relationships with parents and peers; the authors used a self-report assessment in order to obtain their results. In the study, the authors looked at poor relationships to see if they had a connection to behavioral and emotional problems that adolescents with Gender Dysphoria were demonstrating. The results showed that poor relationships with peers and family members were correlated to the behavior and emotional issues of adolescents with Gender Dysphoria.

In this day and age, psychologists as well as the media have been giving Gender Identity Disorder or now known as Gender Dysphoria by DSM-V, a lot of publication. Whether the media stating it does not exist and psychologist stating it indeed does exist. As defined U.S. National Library of Medicine in medical terms, “Gender Dysphoria is a condition in which there is a conflict between a person 's physical gender and the gender he or she identifies with.” Other names for Gender Dysphoria are transgenderism or transexualism. Gender Dysphoria does indeed exist in this world because those whom are diagnosed are Transgender whom struggle on a day-to-day basis. That is, not being accepted by family and friends, denial of employment, and medical advancement for treatment with going through Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS).

Transgenderism, or gender dysphoria, is an area of medicine, which has been studied to some degree, yet remains vague as to pathophysiology and potentiating factors. There are, however, various hypotheses that have recently surfaced including sexual differentiation and sexual dimorphism of the brain. However, the evidence is insufficient to base the validity of these concepts. 8,5 Although the cause has yet to be fully understood, the diagnosis of gender variant individuals has changed drastically in the past 35 years, as aforementioned. In terms of diagnosis, clinicians utilize APA’s diagnostic criteria found in the current edition of DSM as well as International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD-10). According to DSM-V, gender dysphoria is distress associated with an incongruence of assigned sex and expression of gender, which causes interference with social functionality. Currently, gender identity disorder is defined in ICD 10 (diagnosis code F64.1) as at least two years of a strong cross-sex identification usually accompanied by strong desire to medically transition one’s body to the expressed gender. 5

Gender dysphoria is described in the DSM-V as a marked incongruence in someone’s experienced or expressed gender and their assigned gender. A diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children requires the client to meet at least six criterions for duration of time lasting at least 6 months and it is necessary that presence of these criterions significantly distress or impair the client in social, school, or personal life. These criterions include a strong desire to be the other gender or an insistence that they are the other gender, a strong preference for cross-dressing or preference for wearing clothing of the other gender, a strong preference for playing the other gender role in fantasy or make-believe play, strong preference to play or interact

Gender identity gives us a distinction between two different genetic sex that was determined at birth or describing yourself to be a male or female based on your body parts. Gender Dysphoria is a word to describe an individual who is battling with their own sense of reality towards their gender they were given from birth to how they feel they should be seen as when they look at themselves in the mirror. I think that everyone should love themselves no matter what and if there are some adjustments that they feel should be done in order to help boost their low self-esteem than why not, but when the problem is making you want to take your own life or develop self-hate towards their own body or appearance, then the person should go seek professional