gender dysphoria

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gender dysphoria

noun gender dysphorias

  1. uncountable, usually A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a certain gender or sex, experienced especially by transgender people. The Saturday workshops focused mainly on the situations that the professionals may encounter in their work. Since these people would be dealing most often with those feeling gender disforia ^([sic]) (a discomfort about their gender or their need to cross-dress), the discussion centered around people

    Similar: GD, gender identity disorder · Opposite: gender euphoria

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noun profound unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's birth-assigned sex, experienced by some transgender people

Españoldisforia de género
한국어성별 불쾌감 seongbyeol bulkwaegam
日本語性別違和 seibetsu iwa
中文性別焦慮 /性别焦虑 xìngbié jiāolǜ, 性別不安 /性别不安 xìngbié bù'ān
Portuguêsdisforia de gênero, disforia de género
Françaisdysphorie de genre
DeutschGender-Dysphorie, Geschlechtsdysphorie
Italianoincongruenza di genere
Ελληνικάδυσφορία φύλου dysforía fýlou
Românădisforie de gen
Русскийгендерная дисфория gendernaja disforija
العربيةاِنْزِعَاج جَنْدَرِي inziʕāj jandarī

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@misc{gender_dysphoria_2026,
  title = {gender dysphoria},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gender%20dysphoria},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}