PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gender Dysphoria, Dysphoria, Transsexual
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Slide 74: there is an increase for children who have gender dysphoria now then there was. Slide 76: not a new thing, there are cultures today where you have 3rd genders, these surgically technologies have grown safer over the years. Slide 77: cis vs. trans, cis = you have a gender that matches your biological sex. For the vast majority of women, they feel like they are attracted to women, but feel like they are in the wrong body. For women with gd tend to also identify as homosexual as their biological sex: more likely for women here to be homosexual where for men it is a 50-50 split (when they change identity they might be heterosexual) For it to be diagnosed, you have to have this persistent feeling of misidentification. It has to be causing distress of it to be considered gd.
