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Gender dysphoria and its social context
Gender identity:
deep and individual experience of gender
(may or may not correspond to sex assigned at birth)
personal sense of the body (may involve if freely chosen modification of bodily appearance)
other expressions of gender (including dress, speech, mannerims)
Gender expression:
a person’s manifestation of gender identity
(masculine, feminine, gender variant, behaviour, clothing, hair, voice, body characteristics)
Trans persons may choose to express their gender identity in different ways.
Gender dysphoria and its social context
Between 1.9% and 3.2% natal female report ambivalent gender identity Between 2,2% and 4,2% natal men report ambivalent gender identity
Equal identification with the other sex as with the sex assigned at birth
Between 0.6% and 0.8% natal female report incongruent gender identity Between 0.7% and 1,1% natal men report incongruent gender identity
Stronger identification with the other sex than with the sex assigned at birth
Being trans in the EU, comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey data by the European Union Agency of Fundamental Rights (2014)
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