Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn’t shake the sense that he wouldn’t grow up to be a woman. “One of my earliest gender memories was that I was going to grow up to ...

How the American Psychiatric Association defines and diagnoses the disorder. — -- There are two components of Gender Identity Disorder, both of which must be present to make the diagnosis. There ...

Gender dysphoria is a term to describe the experience of distress that can be caused when people’s sex and gender identity do not match. Experts do not consider it a mental illness, and not all trans ...

Eating disorders are complicated illnesses that interrupt a person’s relationship to eating and significantly affect their overall functioning. Recovery is possible and is typically found through ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits public entities from discriminating against any individual with a “disability.” The ADA generally defines “disability,” with respect to an individual, as ...

A person with folded hands resting on a banister. Source: Ümit Bulut/Unsplash Research reports a higher occurrence of eating disorders among transgender individuals. Transgender individuals report ...

A Peruvian policy that described transgender people as having a mental illness was reversed after backlash in June 2024, a ...

[The gender recognition law] is definitely a system that is wrecking [transgender] people’s dignity as a human being. —Saburo N., a transgender man, Kanagawa Prefecture, September 2018 Despite ...

(CNN) — Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a child, he couldn’t shake the sense that he wouldn’t grow up to be a woman. (CNN) — Schuyler Bailar was assigned female at birth. But as a ...