Problem
Gender dysphoria
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Indistinct awareness of sexual identityGender identity disorders
Conflicting sense of sexual identity
Nature:
In the case of mild gender identity disturbance, the person is aware of his or her assigned sex, but experiences discomfort and a sense of inappropriateness about it. When disorder is severe, the person has the sense of belonging to the opposite sex. In childhood girls or boys have a persistent and intense distress about their sex and their anatomic structures. With boys the grossly feminine behaviour may lessen during the adolescence, but up to two-thirds of the boys with the disorder develop a homosexual orientation. Only a minority of females retain the masculine identification and of those only some develop homosexual orientation.
Broader Problems:
Mental disordersInadequate sense of personal identity Narrower Problems:
BisexualityHeterosexismTransvestismHomosexualityTranssexualismEffeminatenessDecadent clothingHuman pseudo hermaphroditism Related Problems:
Elusiveness of male sexualityConfused identity of womanhoodMultiple personality disorder Aggravates:
LesbianismMarital instabilitySexual unfulfilmentPrejudice in childrenConfusion over sex rolesGeneration communication gap Reduces:
Sexual discrimination Strategies:
Changing gender rolesCorrecting gender biasApplying a gender-sensitive perspectiveAchieving gender equality Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Subject(s):
Consciousness → Consciousness Government → Citizenship
Individuation → Individuation
Medicine → Pathology
Society → Infants
Society → Sex-related questions
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Date of last update
05.08.2019 – 18:24 CEST