What is Gender dysphoria (dysphoric)?
Clinical literature on transsexualism once spoke of transsexuals having “gender confusion.” The term now used is “gender dysphoria,” a fancy way of saying “extreme discomfort”. Transgendered people, once given an understanding and a vocabulary for who they are, are confused mostly by society’s reluctance to give them validity. The best science we currently have indicates that biological gender dysphoria is caused by hormonal fluctuations at a crucial time in fetal development.
