Why is gender reassignment a protected characteristic?
To be protected from gender reassignment discrimination, you do not need to have undergone any specific treatment or surgery to change from your birth sex to your preferred gender. This is because changing your physiological or other gender attributes is a personal process rather than a medical one.
Do you have to be diagnosed with dysphoria?
Gender dysphoria of childhood is not a surgical diagnosis. It is a medical diagnosis that does not require treatment, other than possibly individual or family therapy, until a child reaches puberty. Gender dysphoria is typically diagnosed by a therapist or other mental health professional.
How can I help my child with gender dysphoria?
For children and teenagers who have gender dysphoria, affirming their gender identity can help reduce distress….Support involves:
- valuing and loving your child for who they are.
- talking with your child about their experiences and needs.
- helping your child affirm their gender and tell others about it if they choose to.
Can gender dysphoria go away?
According to prospective studies, the majority of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria cease to desire to be the other sex by puberty, with most growing up to identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, with or without therapeutic intervention. If the dysphoria persists during puberty, it is very likely permanent.
What is gender reassignment in health and social care?
A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if that person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning their sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
What is gender reassignment surgery?
Gender reassignment surgery, sometimes called sex reassignment surgery, is performed to transition individuals with gender dysphoria to their desired gender. People with gender dysphoria often feel that they were born in the wrong gender. A biological male may identify more as a female and vice versa.
How is dysphoria treated?
Medical treatment of gender dysphoria might include:
- Hormone therapy, such as feminizing hormone therapy or masculinizing hormone therapy.
- Surgery, such as feminizing surgery or masculinizing surgery to change the breasts or chest, external genitalia, internal genitalia, facial features, and body contouring.
What therapy is best for gender dysphoria?
Cognitive Therapy has been shown to be an effective treatment for psychological stressors. Medical treatments for Gender Dysphoria include both hormone therapy and the reassignment surgery which help individuals become the gender they identify with.
How is gender dysphoria treated?
Medical treatment of gender dysphoria might include: Hormone therapy, such as feminizing hormone therapy or masculinizing hormone therapy. Surgery, such as feminizing surgery or masculinizing surgery to change the breasts or chest, external genitalia, internal genitalia, facial features, and body contouring.
How do you fix gender dysphoria?
Treatment for adults
- psychological support, such as counselling.
- cross-sex hormone therapy.
- speech and language therapy (voice therapy) to help you sound more typical of your gender identity.
Is gender dysphoria caused by trauma?
Gender dysphoria currently exists as a mental health diagnosis, perpetuating stigma as well as pathologizing gender variance. Clinical social workers have preserved a harmful formulation that gender dysphoria is a disorder caused by trauma.
What are the risk factors of gender dysphoria?
Potential reasons for gender dysphoria include:
- being born with a condition that affects the sex hormones.
- fetal exposure to chemicals that disrupt hormones, such as phthalates.
- faulty development of some neurons related to gender.
- having a psychiatric condition, such as schizophrenia.
- having autism spectrum disorder (ASD)