gender dysphoria

gender dysphoria

English

Noun

gender dysphoria (usually uncountable, plural gender dysphorias)

1. A profound and persistent unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's biological sex, experienced especially by transgender people.

   Synonyms: GD, (dated) gender identity disorder

   Antonym: gender euphoria

   • [2014, Nancy J. Mezey, LGBT Families, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

     In the latest version of the DSM (the DSM-5) released in May 2013, the association changed the name from GID to “gender dysphoria.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, they changed the name “to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).]

Derived terms

• ROGD

Translations

profound unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's birth-assigned sex, experienced by some transgender people

Afrikaans: genderdisforie Catalan: disfòria de gènere f Chinese: Mandarin: 性別焦慮／性别焦虑 (xìngbié jiāolǜ), 性別不安／性别不安 (xìngbié bù'ān) Danish: kønsdysfori c Dutch: genderdysforie (nl) f Finnish: sukupuoli-identiteetin häiriö, sukupuolidysforia French: dysphorie de genre (fr) f German: Gender-Dysphorie f, Geschlechtsdysphorie (de) f Greek: δυσφορία φύλου f (dysforía fýlou) Italian: incongruenza di genere f Japanese: 性別違和 (せいべついわ, seibetsu iwa) Korean: 성별 불쾌감(性別不快感) (seongbyeol bulkwaegam) Portuguese: disforia de gênero f (Brazil), disforia de género f (Portugal) Romanian: disforie de gen f Russian: гендерная дисфория (ru) f (gendernaja disforija) Spanish: disforia de género (es) f Swedish: könsidentitetsstörning c, könsdysfori c

Further reading

• gender dysphoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia