Gender Dysphoria

Gender dysphoria is becoming more and more common and yet treatments remain vastly unexamined. As something that has been shown to effect homosexuals, concern needs to be shown for the medicalization of children, including gay youth. The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine says it best:

"...recognizes the right of mature adults to undergo gender-affirming interventions despite the low quality of evidence on which the interventions are based. However SEGM is very concerned about applying experimental procedures to vulnerable youth whose pre-frontal cerebral cortices are still developing, whose identities are evolving, and whose ability to meaningfully consent to interventions with unknown long-term outcomes is highly uncertain."

SEE ALSO: DETRANSITION

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What is 'Gender Dysphoria'?

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person feels due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth.

What is 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria'?

A type of adolescent-onset or late-onset gender dysphoria where the development of gender dysphoria is observed to begin suddenly during or after puberty in an adolescent or young adult who would not have met criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood.

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SEGM

"​We are an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers concerned about the lack of quality evidence for the use of hormonal and surgical interventions as first-line treatment for young people with gender dysphoria."

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IATDD

"IATDD is an international group of therapists working together to better understand the needs and challenges faced by desisting and detransitioning people."

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GETA

"We are here because those who are exploring gender identity or struggling with their biological sex should have access to therapists who will provide thoughtful care without pushing an ideological or political agenda."

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Reading

A few reading recommendations from ReIME and from us here at NGLF

My Body Is Me

"This book introduces young children to the workings of the human body, celebrates similarities and differences while challenging sex stereotypes and promotes a positive self-image, including children with physical or sensory disabilities."

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Inventing Transgender Children and Young People

"The essays in this volume are written by clinicians, psychologists, sociologists, educators, parents and de-transitioners."

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The End of Gender

"Debunking popular gender myths in this research-based, scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity."

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Gender Dysphoria

​"As well as clinical exploration and understanding, the book includes an overview of the current political, social, and clinical environments which have all impacted on the clinical care of trans identifying individuals."

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Body Politics

"This brave, truthful and eye-opening book does not shirk from the challenge of meeting the politics of liberalism and transgender rights head on. Everyone who cares about the future of women’s and children’s rights must read it."

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Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body

"This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of the transgender child as a young person whose true gender lies in the brain, or pre-social identity."

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