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How it feels and when it happens can be different from one person to the next. No matter our relationship with our gender, all trans people deserve the medical affirmation we seek. A condition that is exacerbated by misgendering, by barriers to affirming care, and by having assumptions made about you by others, to name a few. The feeling of gender dysphoria, what this page focusses on, could be considered through the lens of being a social condition rather than a medical issue. The diagnosis is one in a long history of ways clinicians and researchers have interacted with trans people, which you can read more about at our Gender Diagnoses page.

It can be confusing but there is a difference between the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria and the feeling of gender dysphoria experienced by some trans people. Whatever you feel and wherever you feel it, you are valid and valuable. Many find this changes over the course of life or throughout gender affirmation. Some trans people feel dysphoria as overwhelming or all-encompassing, while others don’t have any dysphoria at all. This is not true.ĭysphoria occurs for all sorts of reasons and for many different people. The implication of this though has been the assumption that all trans people have had, or currently have, dysphoria, or that defines the trans experience. This was broadly considered a positive step, as it shifted the clinical focus from ‘who we are’ to something we might experience. The diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria arrived in 2013 when it was listed in the 5th edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). For trans people, this kind of distress may be associated with our gender, our bodies, or how those around us perceive our gender, and so is often given the name ‘gender dysphoria’. The word dysphoria is used in general to describe discomfort, distress, or unease.