Variations in Gender Dysphoria
Cassandra has made a useful infographic that can be used to understand the nuances of gender dysphoria. It helps gender variant people understand that there are several sides to dysphoria, and that each and every one of them may vary in strength.
The infographic was originally inspired by this article by Darah Hoofman-Fox.
In our recent study of gender variance, we found that 59% of the respondents reported some kind of dysphoria. This also applies to crossdressers and crossdreamers. 30% reported strong or severe dysphoria.
TBH I love this because I feel very little body dysphoria but I feel a shit ton of social dyspohoria and I only ever hear dysphoria described in terms of body dysphoria. This is a super important distinction to make and actually is really comforting to me since people usually challenge my validity since most of my dysphoria is social and not body…