Gender identity disorder is a diagnosis used by therapists, doctors and psychologists to describe people who have and experience gender discontentment or dysphoria.
It occurs when someone believes they would be more content as the opposite sex.
It is a psychiatric classification of the following categories - transexuality, transgender and tranvestism.
Some of the characteristics associated with the gender identity disorder can include the following: - A strong and persistent identification with the opposite sex and a sense that their bodies should be in another way or form that of the opposite gender.
- A strong discomfort with their assigned sex and a high sense of inappropriateness in the gender assigned role of that sex highlighting a deep desire to be the other gender - A sense of distress in or impairment in social, job roles or other important areas of life functioning in that gender role of their assigned sex orientation.
- A strong desire to live and be accepted as a member of their opposite sex and the hope that they can make their bodies as congruent with the wish to be of the other gender as possible.
- The wish to be the opposite sex has existed for a considerable amount of time.
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for more than 2 years.
- The disorder isn't simply a symptom arising from another disorder.
- There may exist a preference to dress in the other's gender's typical clothes.
For example a male may like to dress if typically feminine clothing such as skirts or dresses because he feels more comfortably in those clothes.