Mental health and gender dysphoria: A review of the literature

C Dhejne, R Van Vlerken, G Heylens… - Gender Dysphoria and …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender
Nonconforming People, version 7 (SOC-7) by the World Professional Association for …

Prevalence of anxiety symptoms and disorders in the transgender population: A systematic review of the literature

N Millet, J Longworth, J Arcelus - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the general
population, affecting 18% of the population in the United States (12 months prevalence) and …

Mental health in transgender individuals: a systematic review

F Pinna, P Paribello, G Somaini, A Corona… - International review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Several lines of evidence indicate the prevalence of mental health disorders in Transgender
(TG) individuals is higher than that of cisgender individuals or the general population. In this …

Gender dysphoria in adults

KJ Zucker, AA Lawrence… - Annual review of clinical …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Gender dysphoria (GD), a term that denotes persistent discomfort with one's biologic sex or
assigned gender, replaced the diagnosis of gender identity disorder in the Diagnostic and …

Psychosis in transgender and gender non-conforming individuals: A review of the literature and a call for more research

SM Barr, D Roberts, KN Thakkar - Psychiatry Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Epidemiological studies have described higher rates of psychotic disorder diagnoses in
transgender, as compared to cisgender, individuals. With the exception of this work and a …

Psychiatric disorders in individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria: A systematic review

LD de Freitas, G Léda‐Rêgo… - Psychiatry and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although there has been an increase in the social acceptance of the gender dysphoria
(GD) population, these individuals still suffer a high degree of emotional stress, which …

[HTML][HTML] Non-HIV chronic disease burden among transgender populations globally: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

AJ Rich, AI Scheim, M Koehoorn, T Poteat - Preventive medicine reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Chronic disease is a growing concern for research, policy and clinical care. While the global
burden of HIV for transgender populations has been comprehensively covered in recent …

Health of transgender men in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review

A Scheim, V Kacholia, C Logie, V Chakrapani… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Despite the rapid growth of research on transgender (trans) health globally, the
extent of research on trans men and other transmasculine persons assigned the female sex …

[HTML][HTML] Transgender associations and possible etiology: a literature review

F Saleem, SW Rizvi - Cureus, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transgender or gender dysphoria has been defined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), as distress resulting from the incongruence …

Gender identity disorder and schizophrenia: neurodevelopmental disorders with common causal mechanisms?

RP Rajkumar - Schizophrenia research and treatment, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Gender identity disorder (GID), recently renamed gender dysphoria (GD), is a rare condition
characterized by an incongruity between gender identity and biological sex. Clinical …