Day 782: dysphoria

“Gender dysphoria” refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.

Artwork of the day
Gaylen Gerber: Support/Untitled (with Heimo Zobernig), 2004

Word of the day
dysphoria:  severe unhappiness, especially a person's feeling of being very uncomfortable in their body or of being in the wrong body

Quote of the day 
“Several studies indicate that nearly 70 percent of kids who experience childhood gender dysphoria—and are not affirmed or socially transitioned—eventually outgrow it.23”
― Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters