Gender Dysphoria, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

By Kenneth Kee

This book describes Gender Dysphoria, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

A person belongs to the gender he or she feels inside him or her.

Gender dysphoria happens when a person has a deep discomfort and distress about the gender they were born with since it does not match their gender identity.

A person who was physically born female instead has a deep inner feeling of being male.

This mismatch causes severe discomfort, anxiety, and depression.

Typically, children are allocated their gender at birth based on their anatomy and chromosomes.

For most children, this gender allocation corresponds to their gender identity, an internal sense of identifying oneself as male or female.

Some children might feel strangeness and grow into transgender adults.

Gender dysphoria (GD) according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM 5) is depicted as a “marked difference between their knowledge or expressed gender and the one they were allocated at birth.”

It was formerly termed "gender identity disorder."

Children or adolescents who feel this turmoil cannot link to their gender expression when recognizing themselves within traditional societal binary male or female parts, which may induce cultural stigmatization.

This can further result in relationship conflicts with family, peers, friends in different aspects of their daily lives and cause:
1. Rejection from society,
2. Interpersonal conflicts,
3. Symptoms of depression and anxiety
4. Substance use disorders,
5. A negative sense of well-being and poor self-esteem, and
6. Higher risk of self-harm and suicide.

There should more awareness created to perceive gender expression as a continuum from male to female rather than fixed binary norms.

This might help society to understand the population and reduce the burden of mental health problems produced by the linked stigma.

The term gender should not be confused with a person’s sexual direction.

A transgender man (biological female) may categorize himself as heterosexual and still be sexually engrossed with women and vice versa.

People who have gender dysphoria believe stoutly that their gender does not equal their biology.

A person who has a penis and all other physical traits of a male might feel instead that he is really a female.

The person can have an intense wish to have a female body and to be acknowledged by others as a female.

Or someone with the physical features of a female would feel her true identity is male.

Feeling that the body does not indicate the true gender can induce severe distress, anxiety, and depression.

"Dysphoria" is a sensation of dissatisfaction, anxiety, and restlessness.

With gender dysphoria, the distress with the male or female body can be so serious that it can disrupt the normal life, at school or work or during social activities.

Gender dysphoria was known as “gender identity disorder.”

The mismatch between body and internal feeling of gender is not a mental sickness.

Instead, what need to be treated are the stress, anxiety, and depression that go along with it.

The disorder has been called “transsexualism” an outdated offensive term

Now “transgender” is used to depict someone who feels his or her body and gender do not match.

Gender nonconforming (GNC) is a broader term that can involve people with gender dysphoria.

But it can also depict people who feel that they are neither only male nor only female.

People who identify with both genders or with neither gender may call themselves "gender queer."

Gender dysphoria is not homosexuality.

The internal sense of the gender is not the same as the sexual orientation.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Gender Dysphoria
Chapter 2 Causes
Chapter 3 Symptoms
Chapter 4 Diagnosis
Chapter 5 Tre

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Kee
• Release date: Jul 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005334512

Kenneth Kee

Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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Gender Dysphoria,

A

Simple

Guide

To

The Condition,

Diagnosis,

Treatment

And

Related Conditions

By

Dr Kenneth Kee

M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

Copyright Kenneth Kee 2020 Smashwords Edition

Published by Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

Dedication

This book is dedicated

To my wife Dorothy

And my children

Carolyn, Grace

And Kelvin

This book describes Gender Dysphoria, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases which is seen in some of my patients in my Family Clinic.

(What You Need to Treat Gender Dysphoria)

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Introduction

I have been writing medical articles for my blog: http://kennethkee.blogspot.com (A Simple Guide to Medical Disorder) for the benefit of my patients since 2007.

My purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of my patients.

Health Education was also my dissertation for my Ph.D (Healthcare Administration).

I then wrote an autobiography account of my journey as a medical student to family doctor on my other blog: http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com.

This autobiography account A Family Doctor’s Tale was combined with my early A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders into a new Wordpress Blog A Family Doctor’s Tale on http://kenkee481.wordpress.com.

From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 800 eBooks.

Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.

For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.

The later books go into more details of medical disorders.

The first chapter is always from my earlier blogs which unfortunately tends to have typos and spelling mistakes.

Since 2013, I have tried to improve my spelling and writing.

As I tried to bring the patient the latest information about a disorder or illness by reading the latest journals both online and offline, I find that I am learning more and improving on my own medical knowledge in diagnosis and treatment for my patients.

Just by writing all these simple guides I find that I have learned a lot from your reviews (good or bad), criticism and advice.

I am sorry for the repetitions in these simple guides as the second chapters onwards have new information as compared to my first chapter taken from my blog.

I also find repetition definitely help me and maybe some readers to remember the facts in the books more easily.

I apologize if these repetitions are irritating to some readers.

Chapter 1

Gender dysphoria

A person belongs to the gender he or she feels inside him or her.

What is Gender dysphoria?

Gender dysphoria happens when a person has a deep discomfort and distress about the gender they were born with since it does not match their gender identity.

A person who was physically born female instead has a deep inner feeling of being male.

This mismatch causes severe discomfort, anxiety, and depression.

Typically, children are allocated their gender at birth based on their anatomy and chromosomes.

For most children, this gender allocation corresponds to their gender identity, an internal sense of identifying oneself as male or female.

Some children might feel strangeness and grow into transgender adults.

Gender dysphoria (GD) according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM 5) is depicted as a marked difference between their knowledge or expressed gender and the one they were allocated at birth.

It was formerly termed gender identity disorder.

Children or adolescents who feel this turmoil cannot link to their gender expression when recognizing themselves within traditional societal binary male or female parts, which may induce cultural stigmatization.

This can further result in relationship conflicts with family, peers, friends in different aspects of their daily lives and cause:

1. Rejection from society,

2. Interpersonal conflicts,

3. Symptoms of depression and anxiety

4. Substance use disorders,

5. A negative sense of well-being and poor self-esteem, and

6. Higher risk of self-harm and suicide.

There should more awareness created to perceive gender expression as a continuum from male to female rather than fixed binary norms.

This might help society to understand the population and reduce the burden of mental health problems produced by the linked