英语释义
1. a distressed state arising from conflict between a person's gender identity and the sex the person has or was identified as having at birth also a condition marked by such distress
2. a distressed state arising from conflict between a person's gender identity and the sex the person has or was identified as having at birth
A significant incongruence between gender identity and physical phenotype is known as gender identity disorder; the experience of this state, termed gender dysphoria, is a source of chronic suffering.
— Louis J. Gooren, The New England Journal of Medicine, 31 Mar. 2011 also a psychological disorder marked by such distress
Scientists have no conclusive explanation for what causes some people to feel dissonance between their gender identity and aspects of their anatomy. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association updated its manual, replacing the term "gender identity disorder," with one that is less stigmatizing, "gender dysphoria."
— The New York Times, 4 May 2015 Note: Gender dysphoria is typically manifested by a rejection of traditional gender roles and by a desire to live as a member of the opposite sex.