1973: Fisk proposed "gender dysphoria" (sometimes called "gender dysphoria syndrome") to describe the distress from incongruence between one's experienced gender and biological sex. This was in the context of early work on transsexualism by figures like Harry Benjamin (who treated patients in the 1950s–1960s).
1979: The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (later WPATH) used the term in its first Standards of Care.
1980: DSM-III introduced "gender identity disorder" (and "transsexualism") as official psychiatric diagnoses, not "gender dysphoria." Earlier DSM editions (1952, 1968) had no equivalent.
2013: DSM-5 replaced "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" to reduce stigma while keeping it as a diagnosable condition focused on distress (not identity itself). It was moved out of sexual disorders into its own category.
The whole point to the term is to get insurance and welfare agencies to pay for it.
Gender dysphoria is a lot like Multiple personality disorder, it exists only after social exposure to it and is very specifically regional to politically leftist controlled areas. Bill Maher even came out and said the quiet part out loud:
ReplyDelete""If this spike in trans children is all biological, why is it regional? Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them,"
"Never forget, children are impressionable and very, very stupid,".
I believe most of what is being called transgender is actually just young gay people on the autistic spectrum being talked into the problem or imitating someone else. Having a mother or father who also has mental problems is probably a strong factor.