Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn’t shake the sense that he wouldn’t grow up to be a woman. “One of my earliest gender memories was that I was going to grow up to ...

Dysphoria is not a diagnosis but a feeling of deep unhappiness and indifference. It can be a symptom of mental health conditions like depression and bipolar disorder. Dysphoria that doesn't improve ...

Gender dysphoria is a term to describe the experience of distress that can be caused when people’s sex and gender identity do not match. Experts do not consider it a mental illness, and not all trans ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Findings from a small study suggest that combining an antidepressant with an anticonvulsive drug, a type of drug normally used to treat epilepsy, may be an effective ...

Although various names have referred to it, the phenomenon of gender dysphoria has been well-studied for over a century. Gender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex doesn’t match their ...

Among hospitalized young people in the United States, 66% of those with a gender dysphoria diagnosis were admitted for suicide attempts or self-harm in 2019, compared to 5% without gender dysphoria, ...

A sweeping review of transgender treatments on minors found “deep uncertainty about the purported benefits” of many of those interventions — and urged doctors to put more of an emphasis on behavioral ...

Opening up about one's body image or mental health struggles is no easy feat. But recently, actor Dove Cameron shared her own experience with dysphoria in an Instagram post published on Wednesday. If ...