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Psychiatria pre prax 4/2020
Gender incongruence
Gender Incongruence of Adolescence and Adulthood is characterised by a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual´s experienced gender and the assigned sex, which often leads to a desire to transition, in order to live and be accepted as a person of the experienced gender. The article presents the essential differences between the concepts of gender incongruence, gender dysphoria and transsexualism, as well as a basic medical overview of the issue.
Keywords: gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, transgender identity, transsexualism
