Jimmy believes he was born into the wrong sex. He has known all his life that he should have been a girl, and when he was able to, he began dressing like a woman and eventually plans to get gender reassignment surgery to make his body more feminine. Jimmy's distress about his gender is called ______.

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Jimmy's distress about his gender is called gender dysphoria. This term is used to describe the psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender at birth.

Jimmy Believes He Was Born into the Wrong Sex