Accordingly, if a child or adolescent is experiencing gender dysphoria, baptism is appropriate if the child or adolescent is well prepared to acknowledge and identify with their sex despite struggling with dysphoria on an ongoing basis.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/transgender-baptisms-sorting-out-the-vatican-s-recent-statement

Accordingly, if a child or adolescent is experiencing gender dysphoria, baptism is appropriate if the child or adolescent is well prepared to acknowledge and identify with their sex despite struggling with dysphoria on an ongoing basis.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/transgender-baptisms-sorting-out-the-vatican-s-recent-statement

American Psychiatric Association, “In the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), people whose gender at birth is contrary to the one they identify with will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Source: https://theroanokestar.com/2023/02/10/sen-edwards-committee-to-vote-on-sages-law-next-week/

A pastor who was first elected in 2018, he took on the issue because he had met families who didn’t know how to deal with gender dysphoria.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0511/Lifesaving-or-harmful-Trans-care-debate-barrels-toward-2024?icid=rss

As a young adult, I met the criteria for gender dysphoria in adolescents and adults — I still do today.

Source: https://thewalrus.ca/growing-up-trans/

Because state law defines the standard of care, legislation can refine this standard for pediatric gender dysphoria, which would obviate the need for judges to defer to politicized medical institutions.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-regulate-pediatric-gender-medicine

“But at what point does someone’s gender dysphoria cross the empathy boundary?

Source: https://www.theblaze.com/news/high-school-volleyball-player-concussion-transgender

But the long-term effects of the use of cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery to treat gender dysphoria in minors are still largely unknown.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/18/23548597/transgender-issues-in-schools-and-states-new-poll

“Despite its innocuous name, this therapy seeks to explore all possible causes for a transgender person to experience gender dysphoria other than genuine transness.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/10/nebraska-to-require-trans-youth-to-undergo-therapy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nebraska-to-require-trans-youth-to-undergo-therapy

Experts said the post misrepresents how gender dysphoria is diagnosed and how care might be administered to toddlers.

Source: https://www.wral.com/story/tricia-cotham-tornadoes-and-gender-transitions-politifact-s-top-nc-fact-checks-of-2023/21187225/

Folx Health, for instance, that some patients may not fit the diagnosis for gender dysphoria but that “the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for the surgery.”

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/09/non-judgmental-affirming-gender-clinics-services-kids-transgender-hormone-therapy-fairview/

Frazier, who is also a certified nurse midwife, said the diagnosis of severe gender dysphoria with risk of suicide “could probably apply to just about any kid getting access to gender-affirming care.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/west-virginia-gov-jim-justice-signs-gender-affirming-care-ban/

Gregg followed up to learn why he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/07/he-went-undercover-expose-rubber-stamping-trans-surgeries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=he-went-undercover-expose-rubber-stamping-trans-surgeries

Her claims about the “treatment” being given to underage patients supposedly diagnosed with gender dysphoria were being looked into by Senator Josh Hawley and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

Source: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/04/25/st-louis-trans-clinic-review-looks-like-a-whitewash-n546154

He said it “eased her dysphoria and made her begin to love herself again.”

Source: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/1/18/23559478/transgender-surgeries-puberty-blockers-bill-utah-legislature

However, Litman’s research methods (such as only surveying parents from online forums already explicitly concerned with rapid onset gender dysphoria) were immediately questioned by fellow researchers upon publication.

Source: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/01/24/auto-draft-76-n526026

“If many children who don’t have gender dysphoria are being told that they are trans, they are going to block the queue for those children who do actually need that care,” she said.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2023/12/13/nhs-taking-time-to-transform-gender-services-amid-accusation-of-foot-dragging/

If you have a child dealing with gender dysphoria, that to me is mental and that is medical.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/california-parents-war-with-state-over-right-to-know-their-kids-are-trans/

“If you look at the DSM-5 definition of gender dysphoria, which it is in there … that is a pattern of behavior that is different in a student (and) regardless of what the reason is, needs to be communicated with the parents,” he said.

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/11/placentia-yorba-linda-unified-adopts-a-parental-notification-policy/

It said that many children referred to Gids have complex needs, which can sometimes be overlooked after a gender dysphoria diagnosis.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53154286?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA