1) Gender Dysphoria
- affective/cognitive discontent with assigned gender
- distress over the incongruence between expressed gender and assigned gender
2) GD in Children
- at least six symptoms
- strong desire to be the other gender
- cross dressing
- prefers cross gender roles
- prefers activities of the other gender
- prefer playmates of the other gender
- dislikes sexual anatomy
- desires sex characteristics that match experienced gender
3) GD in Adolescents and Adults
- atl least 6 symptoms
- desires for sex characteristics of other gender
- desires to get rid of one's sex characteristics
- desires to be the other gender
- desire to be treated as the other gender
- conviction that one has typical feelings and reactions of the other gender
