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Gender dysphoria and its social context GID = Gender identity disorder = mental disorder
GID = strong and persistent cross‐gender identification, involving persistent discomfort with one’s sex or sense of
its inappropriateness and the experience of significant distress or impairment in social interactions, occupations or other important areas of function so long as these disturbances
are not concurrent with a physical intersex condition
(American Psychiatric Association (APA, 1994)
Gender dysphoria and its social context
For years advocates have lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to change or remove categories labeling transgender people in a psychiatric manual, arguing that terms like “Gender Identity Disorder” characterize all trans people as mentally ill.
Based on the standards to be set by the DSM‐V, individuals will be diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria for displaying
“a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.”
‐> shift from treatment and fixing a disorder to resolving distress
Remember: Homosexuality -> pathological DSM 1973
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