Gender dysphoria

Gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder, is a psychological disorder in which a person identifies as another gender and experiences distress from the discordance between gender identity and actual anatomy. Chris was diagnosed with the condition in 2016.

Chris & Dysphoria
Through the years one thing strikingly evident about Chris is the complete and total lack of understanding he has for his own body. Though he believed that he was strong, handsome, charismatic and on the TRUE and STRAIGHT path, those beliefs have habitually found themselves to be quite the opposite, and nothing shows this principal more true than his prior belief that he is the absolute peak of the male form. Aside from moments when he would show some sort of discomfort or unfamiliarity, Chris tried his absolute hardest to convince everyone around him (as well as himself) that men are physically superior. That being said, it is easy to believe that Chris doesn't exhibit gender dysphoria at a glance, however his surface level bigotry has historically been hypocritical and shouldn't be taken at face value.

Psychological symptoms
According to DSM-5, the symptoms for gender dysphoria are:


 * A strong desire to be of a gender other than one's assigned gender
 * A strong desire to be treated as a gender other than one's assigned gender
 * A significant incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's sexual characteristics
 * A strong desire for the sexual characteristics of a gender other than one's assigned gender
 * A strong desire to be rid of one's sexual characteristics due to incongruence with one's experienced or expressed gender
 * A strong conviction that one has the typical reactions and feelings of a gender other than one's assigned gender
 * Associated with clinically significant distress or impairment