What Is Gender Dysphoria? A Critical Systematic Narrative Review

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dc.contributor.authorDavy, Zowieen
dc.contributor.authorToze, Michaelen
dc.date.acceptance2018-10-07en
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-08T14:20:00Z
dc.date.available2018-11-08T14:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-07
dc.descriptionopen access articleen
dc.description.abstractIn the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association has changed the diagnosis of gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria (GD). In this critical narrative review we ask: What is gender dysphoria? We report on some of the inconsistencies in the articles that foreground distress while obfuscating the fact that not all trans and intersex people suffer stress or impaired functioning, and the inappropriate referencing to intersex people in the diagnostic criterion, claims about the GD diagnosis contributing to the depathologization of and reducing stigma surrounding trans people, the conceptualizations of ‘‘gender dysphoric’’ research subjects, and finally we question the etiological approaches using GD as a conceptual framework. We further suggest that there are a number of methodological issues that need to be resolved to be able to claim that the GD diagnosis can be validated. To shed light on these paradoxes and methodological issues in the DSM-5, we report on the content validity of GD by reviewing research articles postdiagnostic inception. These findings will contribute to the debate about the validity of GD as a diagnosis for the 21st century for those people who need to live a different gender to that assigned at birth.en
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationDavy, Z. and Toze, M (2018) What Is Gender Dysphoria? A Critical Systematic Narrative Review. Transgender Health, 4 (1),en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2018.0014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/17127
dc.language.isoenen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherMary Ann Lieberten
dc.researchgroupCentre for LGBTQ Researchen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Health, Health Policy and Social Careen
dc.subjectgender dysphoriaen
dc.subjectdiagnostic controversiesen
dc.subjecttrans peopleen
dc.subjectintersexen
dc.subjectDSM-5en
dc.titleWhat Is Gender Dysphoria? A Critical Systematic Narrative Reviewen
dc.typeArticleen

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