PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Dysphoria, Dysphoria, Transsexual
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Biological indicators of male or female: gender. A lived role as boy or girl, man or woman: gender assignment. Initial assignment at birth as male or female: gender reassignment. An official change of gender (usually a legal change: transgender. Individuals who identify with a gender different than what was assigned at birth: gender identity. Deep seated sense of ourselves as male or female: gender identity disorder. Was the term used in dsm-iv: transsexual. An individual has undergone or wants to undergo a transition from male to female or female to male: transsexualism. Term was in dsm before gender identity disorder: gender dysphoria. Main focus is on distress: dsm-5 gender dysphoria, focus on distress the distress that a person experiences when their gender identity doesn"t match their biological sex (not just about the mismatch but mostly about the distress) Different from gid focus: goal is not sexual, prevalence. More common in men (about twice as common)
