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 permanently.
The entire
spectrum of gender dysphoria disorders is treated as though it were an authentic lifestyle choice unreasonably suppressed by a bigoted majority.
Compared with the general U.S. population, the military and its veterans have a fourfold higher
rate of gender dysphoria, according to Grotzke.
A new study has confirmed that transgender youth often have mental health problems and that their depression and anxiety improve greatly with recognition and
treatment of gender dysphoria.
This is consistent with the dramatic rates of
resolution of gender dysphoria documented among children when they are not encouraged to impersonate the opposite sex.
Identical twin studies demonstrate that non-shared post-natal events (environmental factors) predominate in the development and
persistence of gender dysphoria.
Following a Pentagon policy review after a tweet by Trump last year, the White House announced a new policy that «transgender persons with a history or
diagnosis of gender dysphoria — individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances.»
This additional protection affords increased rights for transgender individuals in New York, such as the right to reasonable accommodation for those who allege a diagnosis
of gender dysphoria.
By examining medical records at Salt Lake City VAMC between January 1, 2014, and October 1, 2015, Grotzke and her colleagues found 39 patients who had a diagnosis
of gender dysphoria.