...I agree with the DSM’s decision to rename “gender identity disorder” to “gender dysphoria”. The term gender disorder meant the focus was on what is wrong with the person (Whitbourne & Halgin, 2013). By placing the label that they had some dysfunction, the people who were having the struggle would just feel even more doubt that there was something that needed to be fixed so they would accept the sex they were born with. This would lead them to being depressed, and may even lead to alcoholism or drug addiction (Whitbourne & Halgin, 2013). Gender dysphoria allows the attention to be taken away from being a disorder. Instead, clinicians now work to help them accept that the feelings they have are real. This way they can move forward in life...
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...Abigail Gardener Physiology December 3, 2014 Physiology Paper on Gender Dysphoria Gender identity disorder (GID) or gender dysphoria is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe people who experience significant discontent with the sex they were assigned at birth and/or the gender roles associated with that sex. Evidence suggests that people who identify with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth may do so not just due to psychological or behavioral causes, but also biological ones related to their genetics, the makeup of their brains, or prenatal exposure to hormones. Gender identity disorder is classified as a medical disorder called gender dysphoria. Many transgender people and researchers support declassification of GID because they say the diagnosis pathologies gender variance, reinforces the binary model of gender and can result in reprehension of transgender individuals. The official classification of gender dysphoria as a disorder may help resolve some of these issues, because the term "gender dysphoria" applies only to the discontent experienced by some persons resulting from gender identity issues. The current medical approach to treatment for persons diagnosed with gender identity disorder is to support the individual in physically modifying the body to better match the psychological gender identity. This approach is based on the concept that their experience is based in a medical problem correctable by...
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...Preventions Gender Dysphoria is not something that can be easily prevented. It could be incredibly hard for someone to change someone else mind about the way they feel about themselves. Anyway, to prevent Gender Dysphoria it has to start early in the person life. Children, as early as age 3, can start developing the desire of wanting to be the opposite sex. So the sooner the parents act on preventing it the higher the chances are to change the children way of thinking. Parents could start by providing gender-appropriate clothing and toys. They should also try to avoid saying disrespectful comment about the child liking in things. Such as the toys they rather play with or the activity they rather do. By doing this it lowers the risk of harming...
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...military to stay in and allow more to enlist. Although the courts dismissed the appeal, the process of joining the military is a lot more challenging than you expect. Besides filling out paperwork you have to go through a background check to make sure that you aren’t a previous felon. As well as doing the background check, you will be tested on your health to make sure you are healthy. How does the military doctors treat you as a transgender? They treat it as a gender dysphoria or a medical disorder that will be put into your file. The military has a medical document that is more than 80 pages long and it contains every disorder that doctors have found and gender dysphoria is one of them. Before you enlist, the medical examiner has to pass you as stable and that you went into the disorder 18 months before you enlisted. If you walked into the recruiting station before they dismissed the appeal, the recruiting station would have turned you away. Now you can join openly without any problems as long as your disorder of gender dysphoria is stable. While there were two rulings against the President, the military has been...
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...Gender dysphoria is a disorder that is growing in awareness. This involves conflict between a person's gender based on what he/she/they identify themselves as, this is when a person is assigned one gender at birth but identifies with the opposite gender. This disorder is more commonly identified as “Transgender”. People with gender dysphoria are uncomfortable with their assigned gender, in order to comfort themselves on this matter is by changing their dress code or hairstyles. Researchers discover this disorder when children grow up and go through puberty seeing changes in their bodies , also children with gender dysphoria are more likely to grow up being bisexual or homosexual. Most of these children grow out of it, however others don’t...
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...Discuss explanations of Gender Dysphoria (8+16 marks) Gender Dysphoria is a psychological disorder where individuals experience confusion between their biological sex, their gender identity and gender roles. The Biosocial explanation suggests gender Dysphoria is due to a complex interaction of biological and social factors. Hare et al (09) studied DNA of 112 male to female transsexuals found a correlation between dysphoria and androgen receptor genes. Maladaptive androgen receptor genes failed to masculinise the brain during prenatal development. However, they also found cases of people with this gene who did not develop gender dysphoria, which demonstrates that a biosocial explanation is needed to explain the social factors that are also involved. Therefore, findings are not absolute and because results are based on a correlational design, no cause and effect into gender dysphoria and androgen receptor genes can be established. However, the research can be credited for high scientific validity because well established, objective, scientific measures such as gene testing were done in a lab to study gender dysphoria. Moreover, research has found that sex hormones present during pregnancy affect adult sexual behaviour as hormones either masculinise or feminise the brain prenatally. There are cases of individuals with abnormal genitals due to hormonal imbalance of hormones and they developed conflicting sex and gender identity, potentially leading to gender dsyphoria. This provides...
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...A proposal addressing the Texas University Scholastic League (UIL), the organization that creates rules for almost all athletic and academic contests for public schools in the state of Texas. The committee is hostile to changing their ruling that requires students to compete with athletes of their same gender, based on their birth certificate. Protecting Texas Transgender Athletes Sports play an essential role in the lives and development of children. As the Vice President for the National Alliance for Youth Sports explains, “Sports are the greatest tool we have in today’s society to help children develop positive character traits and life values.” Not only are they great for health and fitness but sports have been proven to boost self-esteem,...
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...This paper will review research and policies that set up from Department of Defense (DoD) agencies and civilian nonprofit institutions addressing gender dysphoria (GD) effects and limitations of affected individuals by GD on the readiness in an operational environment. The material will discuss concepts, definitions, and restrictions shown in the policies of DoD and TRICARE policy manuals (2017). Current policy recommendations written by Secretary of Defense (SecDef), the Honorable James Mattis (2018) shows criteria set up in a DoD report (2018) for individuals with a history or diagnosis GD. Research from the Rand Corporation (2016) will illustrate the implications of individuals affected by GD and the impact of the military service....
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...to stay separate to stay visible. “Queers Read This” stresses the need for separation: “Being queer means leading a different sort of life. It’s not about the mainstream, profit-margins, patriotism, patriarchy or being assimilated. It’s not about executive directors, privilege and elitism. It’s about being on the margins, defining ourselves; it’s about gender-fuck and secrets, what’s beneath the belt and deep inside the heart; it’s about the night” (Anonymous Queers, 1990: 2). Much of this passion and rage in the community was lost around the turn...
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...Gender identity disorder is when an individual have very strong feelings of the opposite sex. They experience discomfort within their own sex and somewhat yearns for the identification of the opposite sex. The condition has also been called “transsexualism.” But this term is outdated. Some consider it offensive. Now “transgender” is often used to describe someone who feels his or her body and gender do not match For instance someone who is a male may often dress up like a woman even feeling like one. They may experience many different identity issues throughout their lives. Identity conflicts need to continue over time to be considered gender dysphoria. The feeling of being in the body of the "wrong" gender must last for at least 2 years for this diagnosis to be made. A history and psychiatric evaluation can confirm the person's constant desire to be the opposite sex. How the gender conflict occurs is different in each person. For example, some people may cross-dress while others want sex-change surgery. Some people of one gender privately identify more with the other gender.Someone who has gender identity disorder may often cross dress and even and seek sex change operations. Many individuals with this disorder seem to become very isolated socially and very separated from everyone. The social isolation sometimes causes major depression. Adults may display anxiety and depressive symptoms. Some adult males have a history of transvestic fetishism as well as other paraphilias. Associated...
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...Regional School Unit 26, a transgender elementary school girl was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Her school recognized the importance of her transition and began referring to her as a female. However, once this decision became a problem with other students and parents, the school took away her right to use the girls’ restroom and forced her into using a staff bathroom. They also would not let her use the girls’ restroom once she transitioned to middle school. The girl’s parents sued the school because of discrimination based on sex. The Maine Supreme court ruled in favor of the girl stating, “it has been clearly established that a student’s psychological well-being and educational success depend upon being permitted to use the communal bathroom consistent with her gender identity, denying access to the appropriate bathroom constitutes sexual orientation discrimination in violation of the Maine Human Rights Act (Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, p. 13-14).” In Mathis v. Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, Coy Mathis, a six-year-old transgender girl was told she would no longer be allowed to use the girls’ restroom. She would have to use the nurse’s bathroom. The...
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...Gender and Development Gender-role development is one of the most important areas of human development. The moment a women finds out she is pregnant she is often anxious to find out the sex of her child. The definitions of the terms "sex" and "gender" need to be understood. The term "sex" denotes the actual physical makeup of individuals that define them as male or female. Sex is determined by genetic makeup, internal reproductive organs, the organization of the brain, and external genitalia. The behavior of individuals as males or females, the types of roles they assume, and their personality characteristics, may be just as important as a person's biological framework. In order to differentiate between biological features one may take into consideration behaviors and social roles to establish "gender." Sex and gender are often intertwined, and certain social expectations can be attributed to one’s biological sex. The sex of a newborn sets the agenda for a whole array of developmental experiences that will influence the person throughout his or her life. Overall, the sex differences between boys and girls in the first year of life are minimal. Boys may be a bit more active or fussier and girls more physically mature and less prone to physical problems, but that may be the extent of the significant differences. Mothers have a tendency to ignore more of their son's emotional outbursts in comparison to their daughters' outbursts. Boys may be rough-housed or played with in...
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...Many people feel like they are born with disorders of sexuality and gender disorders. Even though you can not permit someone to feel or think they way do, it is only important to listen and understand that these disorders are categorized into a mental health issue. These individuals are often afraid of what others will say about them. They feel like they will be judged and ridiculed, do his or her disorder. These disorders are very common in men and women and has been prevalent since the 21st century. The signs and symptoms are different, and they vary from person to person. Sexual organs, sexual dysfunction, and sexual performance all revolve around disorders of gender and sexuality. Depending on the exact disorder that is present, this is...
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...personnel. Explanations of gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria disorder, defined as mental disorders by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (American Psychiatric Association [APA], DSM-1, 1942; DSM-4, 2000; DSM-5, 2013). This textbook published and periodically updated by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), directly affects the guidelines for determining qualification of personnel into military service. Factual information is the only justification used for the policies put forth by the Department of Defense (DOD), Secretary of Defense (SECDEF), the Supreme Court of the United States, the office of the President of the United States and all categories of official office or position...
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...Discuss the role of hormones and/or genes in gender development. (8 + 16 marks) Biological sex is determined by genes, which are on chromosomes. Humans generally have 23 pairs of chromosomes, one pair of which determines sex. Females have an XX pair while males have an XY pair. Chromosomal sex largely controls how masculine or feminine the egg's development will be. Chromosomal sex controls whether an embryo will develop ovaries or testes. The SRY gene on the Y chromosome which only males possess will cause the gonad (the organ which produces sex cells) to develop into testes; a female's gonad will develop into ovaries due to the absence of the SRY gene. External genitalia strongly influences gender development, through the effects of the hormones which they produce and due to psychological and social factors. Hormones also affect the development of the genitalia. Androgens (male hormones) such as testosterone stimulate the development of male sex organs. Genetic females who are exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens may therefore develop ambiguous genitalia and the baby may appear externally to be male. Similarly, genetic males with too little androgens may appear externally to be female - this condition is known as androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS). Hormones also have a powerful affect on the development of the brain. Females and males have different brains, with females generally being better at social skills such as empathising & males generally excelling...
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