For as long as she can remember, 15-year-old Kiara has felt that she is a "boy trapped in a girl's body." This situation has caused Kiara intense distress, and she has wrestled with symptoms of depression centering around her own identity. She is learning about sexual reassignment surgery from her mother, who supports her daughter after taking Kiara to a doctor who diagnosed her as having gender __________.

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Kiara's distress and feelings of being a "boy trapped in a girl's body" are characteristic of gender dysphoria, which is the distress that accompanies the incongruence between one's gender identity and the sex assigned at birth. Gender role disorder is an outdated term no longer used in the DSM-5, confusion disorder and denial disorder are not recognized disorders.

For as Long as She Can Remember, 15-Year-Old Kiara Has