Transexuals

[GrandizerII]

DSM-5 considers it a dysphoria, not disorder.

http://www.dsm5.org/documents/gender%20d...0sheet.pdf

Also, from that link:

Not correct - what does DSM-5 stand for? Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. By definition alone it exclusively lists diagnosable mental disorders.

The title provides a general idea about what it is about, but it doesn't mean every single condition it states in the book is considered a disorder. Perhaps for historical/traditional reasons that it's still called the DSM.

Anyway, I just checked the content of the relevant section in the DSM-5. It's called gender dysphoria, never does it consider it as a disorder. The term "gender identity disorder" is DSM-IV term, not DSM-5.

Also, they have this to say (typing it verbatim from the DSM-5 book):

Gender dysphoria refers to the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender. Although not all individuals will experience distress as a result of such incongruence, many are distressed if the desired physical interventions by means of hormones and/or surgery are not available. The current terms is more descriptive than the previous DSM-IV term gender identity disorder and focuses on dysphoria as the clinical problem, not identity per se.

So disorder or not, the issue as the DSM-5 sees it isn't with identifying with a certain gender anyway.