There's a lot of talk about gender dysphoria being misnamed. It used to be called Gender Identity Disorder and before that was called Transsexualim.
Then in 2013, it was changed to Gender Dysphoria, the idea being that it wasn’t a disorder anymore, instead it was dysphoria. So it’s just the distress related to your gender, i.e. this is nothing pathologic…
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