Sentences with phrase «as gender dysphoria»

Transsexuals experience what is known as gender dysphoria, which means they feel as though they are trapped in the body of the wrong sex.2 It is for this reason that transsexuals sometimes undergo sexual reassignment surgery in order to change their body's appearance to be consistent with their desired gender (case in point: Dancing with the Stars contestant Chaz Bono).

If societal views on gender and sexual orientation are changing as rapidly as the secular media might have us think, it is high time the Church sought to form a theological and pastoral response to transgender and the psychological condition that usually pre-empts a gender transition, known as gender dysphoria.

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The entire spectrum of gender dysphoria disorders is treated as though it were an authentic lifestyle choice unreasonably suppressed by a bigoted majority.

«By teaching [students] that this «gender identity» is their «authentic self,» disassociated from the body, we are actively training children into a state of «gender dysphoria» as the normal,» Davies Arai states on her blog, Transgender Trend.

Doherty sees gender dysphoria as one of the many consequences of the Fall.

After living for 25 years as a devoted husband and father, Lisa was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Currently, an adult who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and lived for two years as a person of the opposite sex can apply for a gender recognition certificate, before being issued with a new birth certificate.

The study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth found that participants who did have chest masculinization surgery did so because of chest - related gender dysphoria and being identified as female because of the way their chest looks.

As the law currently stands, in order be granted a gender recognition certificate and have the sex on your birth certificate and other identifying documents changed, you must apply to the Gender Recognition Panel, providing proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permangender recognition certificate and have the sex on your birth certificate and other identifying documents changed, you must apply to the Gender Recognition Panel, providing proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permanGender Recognition Panel, providing proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permangender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permangender role and intend to live in it permanently.

In the State of New York, the Human Rights Law offers substantially more protection than federal antidiscrimination laws, because gender dysphoria is a recognized medical condition that falls within the broad definition of disability found in the state law, as New York courts have recognized.

In a sensitive and deeply reported cover story that begins on page 26, journalist Francine Russo examines the latest research and an ongoing debate among clinicians about how best to help children and adolescents with gender dysphoria — what experts describe as the «insistent, consistent and persistent» sense that one's sex is not what was written on the birth certificate.

Our team follows the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines, designed to help adolescents with gender dysphoria with transition, including use of puberty suppression (blockers) and cross-sex hormones (such as testosterone and estrogen).

The inhumane treatment given by her first doctors is starkly contrasted by that of her last, and when her gender dysphoria is finally given a medical name, it feels as revelatory as it should.

Such a high discordance rate among identical twins proves that no one is born pre-determined to have gender dysphoria let alone pre-determined to identify as transgender or transsexual.

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