Lack of Genital Dysphoria Explained!
Dr. Z talks about what it means if you're not experiencing any dysphoria towards your genitals—lack of genital dysphoria.
A lot of people ask in the comments: "What does it mean if I feel totally fine with my genitals but everything else feels incredibly incongruent? Does that mean I'm not trans?"
To be very clear: you don't need to experience genital dysphoria to identify as transgender. That is not mandated. Transgender is a very big, wide umbrella term—it means being incongruent with gender assigned at birth. How you feel regarding your genitals may or may not fall under that category.
Dr. Z breaks this down into three common categories of individuals who don't experience genital dysphoria. These aren't exclusive—there are many other reasons people don't experience it—but these are three common categories she's observed in her professional practice.
Watch to find out the three categories (dormancy effect where you're hyper-focused on external features, people in long-term relationships or sex workers, and people genuinely comfortable with genitals), why dormancy effect can shift later in transition, and why all of this is completely okay.
