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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Foreword Reviews' 18th Annual INDIEFAB Honorable Mention for Psychology Few topics are more contested today than gender identity. In the fog of the culture war, complex issues like gender dysphoria are reduced to slogans and sound bites. And while the war rages over language, institutions and political allegiances, transgender individuals are the ones who end up being the casualties. Mark...

and gender identity that are all important in the discussion. Gender identity concerns—or what we refer to as gender dysphoria—refers to experiences of gender identity in which a person’s psychological and emotional sense of themselves as female, for instance, does not match or align with their birth sex as male. This would be the more common presentation, but the reverse may also be experienced: a person’s psychological and emotional sense of themselves as male does not match or align with their
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