What do you do if you have gender dysphoria?

Medical treatment of gender dysphoria might include:

1. Hormone therapy, such as feminizing hormone therapy or masculinizing hormone therapy.
2. Surgery, such as feminizing surgery or masculinizing surgery to change the breasts or chest, external genitalia, internal genitalia, facial features, and body contouring.

How can you tell if you have gender dysphoria?

Strongly wanting to get rid of sex characteristics that you don’t identify with

Strongly wanting sex characteristics of another identity than the one assigned to you

Strongly wanting to be a gender other than one’s biological sex

Strongly wanting to be seen as a gender other than the one assigned at birth

How to tell if you have gender dysphoria?

There are no physical symptoms of gender dysphoria, but people with the condition may experience and display a range of feelings and behaviours . In many cases, a person with gender dysphoria begins to feel a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity during early childhood.

What are the reasons involved in a gender dysphoria?

A significant incongruence between primary and secondary sex characteristics and the individual’s experienced gender

A marked desire to be rid of primary or secondary sex characteristics

A desire to have the primary or secondary sex characteristics of their experienced gender

A desire to be their experienced gender

What you should know about gender dysphoria?

Overview. Gender dysphoria is the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics.

Symptoms. Gender dysphoria might start in childhood and continue into adolescence and adulthood (early onset).

Complications.