It is a term formerly used to describe confusion about what a person looks like externally and who that person’s brain believes it really is. Stated another way, there is a marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign him or her. This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The label Sexual Identity Disorder includes a connotation that the individual is “disordered.” Sexual Identity Disorder is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition. According to the American Psychiatric Society, the art of removing stigma is about choosing the right words. Replacing the word “disorder” with “dysphoria” in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation that the individual is “disordered.”
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