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Changes to the DSM-5
This email turned up in my inbox this morning from the Yahoo! group – Sexual Reassignment Surgery.
I figured it’d be worth reposting here.
I deliberately removed the OP’s real email from the headers.Jenifur Charne
Quote:From: “Kelly”
To: sexualreassignmentsurgery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SRS Group] DSM-5 proposed gender dysphoria diagnosis
Date sent: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:28:11 -0000
Send reply to: sexualreassignmentsurgery@yahoogroups.comBelow is the proposed change for GD for the upcoming DSM-5. The three are listed here:
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/GenderDysphoria.aspx
Most of us may fall under the Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents or Adults criteria:
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=482
It states:
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Gender Dysphoria (in Adolescents or Adults)**A. A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least 6 months duration, as manifested by 2* or more of the following indicators: [2, 3, 4]**
1. a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics (or, in young adolescents, the anticipated secondary sex characteristics) [13, 16]
2. a strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics because of a marked incongruence with one’s experienced/expressed gender (or, in young adolescents, a desire to prevent the development of the anticipated secondary sex characteristics) [17]
3. a strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
4. a strong desire to be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
5. a strong desire to be treated as the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
6. a strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from one’s assigned gender)
B. The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, or with a significantly increased risk of suffering, such as distress or disability**
Subtypes
With a disorder of sex development [14]
Without a disorder of sex development
See also: [15, 16, 19]
Specifier**
Post-transition, i.e., the individual has transitioned to full-time living in the desired gender (with or without legalization of gender change) and has undergone (or is undergoing) at least one cross-sex medical procedure or treatment regimen, namely, regular cross-sex hormone treatment or gender reassignment surgery confirming the desired gender (e.g., penectomy, vaginoplasty in a natal male, mastectomy, phalloplasty in a natal female).
Note: Three changes have been made since the initial website launch in February 2010: the name of the diagnosis, the addition of the B criterion, and the addition of a specifier. Definitions and criterion under A remain unchanged.
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