COMPLETE NAME: Yean Xyzra R.

Marquez
COURSE & YEAR: BS Paychology- 3
STUDENT ID No: 19101247

Case of Devine
Personally I don't think it's gender dysphoria because when Devine already felt the incongruence
to his assigned gender and experience gender when he was 7 years old he doesn't experience any
distress and impairment in functioning. He also doesn't have the strong desire to be a girl that is
one of the qualifications to be diagnosed by gender dysphoria because if he has the strong desire
to be a girl he wouldn't try to act like a boy, hide his true feelings and act like a girl with or
without people around him. Not the way he did wherein he just act like a girl when no was is
around. Apparently, he didn't manifest any symptoms of gender dysphoria in childhood. In
contrast to the symptoms that should be manifest by a child to be diagnosed with gender
dysphoria according to Boston Children Hospital. Children are typically diagnosed with gender
dysphoria if the child has experienced significant distress for at least six months and at least six
of the following symptoms: strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that they are
the other gender, strong preference for wearing clothes typical of the opposite gender, strong
preference for cross-gender roles in make-believe play or fantasy play, strong preference for the
toys, games or activities stereotypically used or engaged in by the other gender, strong
preference for playmates of the other gender, a strong rejection of toys, games, and activities
typical of their assigned gender, strong dislike of their sexual anatomy, a strong desire for the
physical sex characteristics that match their experienced gender.

https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions-and treatments/conditions/g/gender-
dysphoria/diagnosis-and-treatment