Gender Dysphoria and Gender Incongruence: An evolving inter-disciplinary field.
2016
Walter Pierre Bouman, and
Annelou L C de Vries, and
Guy T'Sjoen
a Nottingham National Centre for Gender Dysphoria , Nottingham , United Kingdom ; walterbouman@doctors.org.uk.
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MeSH Term
Description
Entries
D008297
Male
Males
D005260
Female
Females
D005783
Gender Identity
A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
Gender,Gender Identities,Identity, Gender
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000068116
Gender Dysphoria
A marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign to the individual, and it must continue for at least six months. (from DSM-5)
Expression of a GENDER IDENTITY inconsistent with, or not culturally-associated with the gender assigned to an individual at birth, combined with the desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify.