Two Main Reasons You Experience REVERSED Gender Dysphoria! Gender Specialist Explains.

Dr. Z covers the two main reasons why individuals experience reverse dysphoria during gender transition. Reverse dysphoria occurs when you're taking steps, doing the work to get aligned with your authentic gender, but instead of feeling affirmed, supported, and confident with less anxiety and depression, you're experiencing reversed dysphoria—meaning you now experience discomfort and distress when moving through life in your authentic gender.

This can feel like one ginormous mindfuck because you're doing exactly what has been shown to work by professionals and numerous individual accounts, yet it produces opposite results. This spins people into deep despair, questioning whether they're making a mistake, whether they're really not trans, causing their egg to crack all over again (egg cracking 2.0).

The first main reason (happening 95% of the time for adults ages 26-27 and up): you're moving too fast in the right direction—there's lack of internal integration and assimilation, you haven't processed all your fears related to what gender transition entails, and you don't have adequate coping skills and tools to deal with challenges.

The second reason (very rare, primarily younger adults without childhood onset): moving too fast but in the wrong direction—certain steps may not be meant for your specific gender transition path.

Watch to understand why reverse dysphoria happens and how to address it without throwing in the towel.