Gender Dysphoria
97.5 percent of transgender and non-binary youth still identified as transgender and non-binary 5 years after social transition.
Cite as: Kristina R. Olson, Lily Durwood, Rachel Horton, Natalie M. Gallagher, Aaron Devor; Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition. Pediatrics August 2022; 150 (2): e2021056082. 10.1542/peds.2021-056082More commonly, transgender youth who socially transitioned at early ages continued to identify that way.
Added: 10 Apr, 2023There is no clinical evidence to support the concept of "Rapid onset gender dysphoria" in adolescents.
Cite as: Greta R. Bauer et al, Do Clinical Data From Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria"?, The Journal of Pediatrics (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.11.020We did not find support within a clinical population for a new etiologic phenomenon of rapid onset gender dysphoria during adolescence. Among adolescents under age 16 years seen in specialized gender clinics, associations between more recent gender knowledge and factors hypothesized to be involved in rapid onset gender dysphoria were either not statistically significant, or were in the opposite direction to what would be hypothesized. This putative phenomenon was posited based on survey data from a convenience sample of parents recruited from websites,10 and may represent the perceptions or experiences of those parents, rather than of adolescents, particularly those who may enter into clinical care. Similar analyses should be replicated using additional clinical and community data sources. Our finding of lower anxiety severity/impairment scores in adolescents with more recent gender knowledge suggests the potential for longstanding experiences of gender dysphoria (or their social complications) playing a role in development of anxiety, which could also be explored in future research.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.11.020
- https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/fulltext#relatedArticles
- https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/pdf
Added: 10 Apr, 2023Difference between dysphoria and dysmorphia
Cite as: Mirabella, Marta, Guido Giovanardi, Alexandro Fortunato, Giulia Senofonte, Francesco Lombardo, Vittorio Lingiardi, and Anna Maria Speranza. 2020. "The Body I Live in. Perceptions and Meanings of Body Dissatisfaction in Young Transgender Adults: A Qualitative Study" Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 11: 3733. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9113733Respondents indeed reported a high level of self-awareness concerning their body and their attempts to attack and alter it. This is surprising, considering that as literature points out cisgender subjects with eating disorders usually show a lack of self-awareness regarding their symptoms, or rather that they tend to deny having issues with eating and to “escape” from their negative view of themselves.
Added: 10 Apr, 2023- Cite as: "What Does the Scholarly Research Say about the Effect of Gender Transition on Transgender Well-Being?" (online literature review), 2018
This search found a robust international consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that gender transition, including medical treatments such as hormone therapy and surgeries, improves the overall well-being of transgender individuals. The literature also indicates that greater availability of medical and social support for gender transition contributes to better quality of life for those who identify as transgender.
Added: 11 Apr, 2023