gender dysphoria

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Noun

gender dysphoria (usually uncountable, plural gender dysphorias)

1. A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a gender different from one's gender identity, experienced especially by transgender people.

   Synonyms: GD, (dated) gender identity disorder

   Antonym: gender euphoria

   • 1977 April 9, Lyn Rosen, “'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     The Saturday workshops focused mainly on the situations that the professionals may encounter in their work. Since these people would be dealing most often with those feeling gender disforia ^[sic] (a discomfort about their gender or their need to cross-dress), the discussion centered around people in the subculture with problems.

   • [2014, Nancy J. Mezey, LGBT Families, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

     In the latest version of the DSM (the DSM-5) released in May 2013, the association changed the name from GID to “gender dysphoria.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, they changed the name “to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).]

Derived terms

• ROGD

Translations

profound unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's birth-assigned sex, experienced by some transgender people

• Afrikaans: genderdisforie
• Arabic: اِضْطِرَاب هُوِيَّة جِنْسِيّ m (iḍṭirāb huwiyya(t) jinsiyy)
• Catalan: disfòria de gènere f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性別焦慮／性别焦虑 (xìngbié jiāolǜ), 性別不安／性别不安 (xìngbié bù'ān)

• Danish: kønsdysfori c
• Dutch: genderdysforie (nl) f
• Finnish: sukupuoli-identiteetin häiriö, sukupuolidysforia (fi)
• French: dysphorie de genre (fr) f
• German: Gender-Dysphorie f, Geschlechtsdysphorie (de) f
• Greek: δυσφορία φύλου (el) f (dysforía fýlou)
• Hungarian: nemi diszfória
• Irish: diosfóiria inscne f
• Italian: incongruenza di genere f
• Japanese: 性別違和 (ja) (せいべついわ, seibetsu iwa)
• Korean: 성별 불쾌감(性別不快感) (seongbyeol bulkwaegam)
• Polish: dysforia płciowa f
• Portuguese: disforia de gênero f (Brazil), disforia de género f (Portugal)
• Romanian: disforie de gen f
• Russian: гендерная дисфория (ru) f (gendernaja disforija)
• Spanish: disforia de género (es) f
• Swedish: könsdysfori (sv) c, könsidentitetsstörning c
• Welsh: dysfforia rhywedd m

Further reading

• gender dysphoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia