Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn’t shake the sense that he wouldn’t grow up to be a woman. “One of my earliest gender memories was that I was going to grow up to ...

After reviewing decades of previous research, a new study suggests that scientists have overlooked a potential cause for the condition known as gender dysphoria, or when a person lives with a mismatch ...

Gender dysphoria may be a lifelong condition, but people can find ways to change their feelings about their bodies. Gender dysphoria is a condition involving significant distress or discomfort due to ...

A person with gender dysphoria may experience conflict with their sex assigned at birth and their gender identity. It is not the same as being transgender or gender-nonconforming. A person may feel ...

New figures have revealed that the number of children in England who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria as recorded by ...

POINT OF SERVICE: Staff at the Oregon Health & Science University’s Doernbecher Gender Clinic discuss hormone therapy options with a new patient and his mother. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson Thousands of ...

Something happened when I first started developing symptoms of psychosis in my teens. At the beginning of my distortion of reality, I chopped off all my long, feminine hair in favor of a style that ...

More research is necessary to fully understand how our hormones affect our gender identity and expression. However, some research shows that hormones may influence gender dysphoria in some people. In ...

As people around the world come to acknowledge that gender is something defined along a spectrum rather than a binary concept, the necessity of a “gender dysphoria” diagnosis needs to be revisited.

Dysphoria is a general dissatisfaction with life. Techniques like mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and positive episodic simulation may help people with dysphoria gain greater contentment and a ...