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'''Gender dysphoria''', also known as '''gender identity disorder''', is a psychological disorder in which a person identifies as another gender. Chris was diagnosed with the condition in 2016.<ref name=psychologist>Chris changed the gender marker on his driver's license to identify him as female in 2016. The procedure to do this in Virginia is to have a professional whose "practice includes the treatment and counseling of persons with gender identity issues" vouch for the person's gender identity on [https://web.archive.org/web/20161223001047/https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/pdf/dl17.pdf this form]. Also mentioned by Chris in [[:File:SchuComic12-1P69.jpg|a ''Sonichu'' #12 page]]</ref>
'''Gender dysphoria''', also known as '''gender identity disorder''', is a psychological disorder in which a person identifies as another gender. Chris was diagnosed with the condition in 2016.<ref group = "note"; name=psychologist>Chris changed the gender marker on his driver's license to identify him as female in 2016. The procedure to do this in Virginia is to have a professional whose "practice includes the treatment and counseling of persons with gender identity issues" vouch for the person's gender identity on [https://web.archive.org/web/20161223001047/https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/pdf/dl17.pdf this form]. Also mentioned by Chris in [[:File:SchuComic12-1P69.jpg|a ''Sonichu'' #12 page]]</ref>


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Gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder, is a psychological disorder in which a person identifies as another gender. Chris was diagnosed with the condition in 2016.[note 1]

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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Chris changed the gender marker on his driver's license to identify him as female in 2016. The procedure to do this in Virginia is to have a professional whose "practice includes the treatment and counseling of persons with gender identity issues" vouch for the person's gender identity on this form. Also mentioned by Chris in a Sonichu #12 page

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