Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe persons who experience significant gender dysphoria (discontent with the biological sex they were born with). it is a psychiatric classification and describes the attributes related to transsexuality. In many cases, discomfort is also reported as stemming from the feeling that one's body is "wrong" or meant to be different. The diagnostic criteria are long-standing and strong identification with another gender, long-standing disquiet about the sex assigned or a sense of incongruity in the gender-assigned role of that sex and significant clinical discomfort or impairment at work, social situations, or other important life areas. Transsexualism has three criteria; the desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by the wish to make his or her body as congruent as possible with the preferred sex through surgery and hormone treatment and has been present persistently for at least two years.
written by Nur Fazilah
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