Please realize:
Gender dysphoria is a junk diagnosis based on the faulty premise of an innate “gender identity.” It was created by sexologists and fetishists to normalize child transsexuals and commit insurance fraud. Myself and other mental health professionals have critiqued it many times.
The DSM is a political tool and for profit book. It is not to be trusted.
The word “gender” in the DSM diagnosis of gender dysphoria means “a public, sociocultural, or lived role.” It is NOT a synonym for sex. It’s about identity. And dysphoria is not a synonym for dysmorphia. Further, it is not considered a disorder, but rather an innate condition. I might be able to get on board with a disorder called sex dysmorphia. I might also go with a specific kind of body integrity disorder. But that is not at all how gender dysphoria is defined. It’s defined as an identity incongruence and the diagnostic criteria is a list of sex stereotypes. It’s basically saying if you don’t conform to sex stereotypes and this makes you uncomfortable, then your body is wrong for your identity.
It assumes identity is innate and bodies can be wrong for your identity. And because it is not considered a disorder but an innate condition it then uses this position to justify chemically castrating children, as well as breast binding, medically unnecessary radical double mastectomies, genital mutilation, and the creation of cosmetic flesh sculptures, as well as other extreme plastic surgeries. All in defense pf someone’s mental concept of themselves aka identity
But Identity is not innate. Identity is a mental concept we create about ourselves. Psychology used to warn about over attachment to egoic identity as a brittle mental state and would question this position. Now the profession argues for affirmation only. It’s appalling.