Understanding Gender Dysphoria: The Subtypes Explained!

Dr. Z shares the five most common gender dysphoria subtypes. Gender dysphoria, as a lot of you know, is a discomfort, it is a distress, it is a psychological turmoil, so many of you experience when you don't feel alignment with your gender assigned at birth.

Understanding gender dysphoria subtypes is very instrumental to all of you because it is going to help you then be more informed on whether you have gender dysphoria stemming from, for example, gender identity as a root issue, or maybe it has more to do with your gender expression and your gender presentation, or maybe it has more to do with some other root causes.

Gender dysphoria subtypes are also helpful to understand because they can help you make better decisions regarding what your goals are, in regard to what gender affirming care you may want to implement in your personal life or not. For that reason, talking about gender dysphoria subtypes is helpful. It's also going to help you pinpoint why you feel particular distress versus other people feeling some other forms of distress.

Watch this video as Dr. Z addresses the five most common gender dysphoria subtypes and how to recognize which ones apply to you.