Gender Incongruence

Mild Gender Incongruence

Expressions activating this band describe gender-related discomfort centered on specific bodily features or on the fact of having been assigned a particular gender, with the mismatch experienced as distressing but not yet broadly framed as a sustained wish for another social role or identity.

Moderate Gender Incongruence

Expressions activating this band describe a clearer wish to be a different gender and dissatisfaction with gendered appearance or situations, including distress in gendered spaces and self-evaluative distress linked to one's gender experience.

Marked Gender Incongruence

Expressions activating this band describe active endorsement of another gender identity or role, including wanting to be treated as another gender, wanting to live as that gender, and expressing distress around the current gendered position.

High Gender Incongruence

Expressions activating this band describe pervasive hurt, discomfort, or rejection when recognized as the assigned gender, alongside a persistent sense that one's feelings, reactions, or way of being fit another gender.

Intense Gender Incongruence

Expressions activating this band describe explicit and sustained desire to be, be treated as, and physically resemble another gender, with the mismatch presented as salient across identity, body, and daily functioning and often tied to significant distress or impairment.

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