According to the American Psychiatric Association, when a person is intensely uncomfortable and distressed with his or her biological gender and strongly identifies with, and wants to be, the other gender, that person may be said to have

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The American Psychiatric Association defines gender dysphoria as the distress a person experiences when their biological sex does not align with their gender identity. This is marked by a strong desire to be recognized and treated as the other gender. Monorchism is the condition of having only one testicle, hypospadias is a condition where the urethra does not exit at the tip of the penis, and 5-alpha reductase deficiency is a genetic condition that affects the development of male genitalia. None of these conditions are related to gender identity.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, When a Person Is