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  • Psychiatric Comorbidities of Incarceration in a Patient With Gender Dysphoria: A Case Report and Literature Review.
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  • Psychiatric Comorbidities of Incarceration in a Patient With Gender Dysphoria: A Case Report and Literature Review.

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Psychiatric Comorbidities of Incarceration in a Patient With Gender Dysphoria: A Case Report and Literature Review. (English)
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition defines gender identity disorder (GID) as a strong and persistent identification with the opposite sex and the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender. (English)
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. (English)
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The onset of GID commonly begins early in childhood. (English)
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. (English)
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Gender dysphoria has a higher prevalence of other comorbid psychiatric illnesses, such as mood, anxiety, and adjustment disorders, with increased suicide incidence and self-harming behaviors than the general population. (English)
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. (English)
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Studies show that some temperamental, environmental, genetic, and psychological factors play a role in developing GID. (English)
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Approximately 16% of transgender people and 21% of transgender women get incarcerated compared with the general US population. (English)
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. (English)
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During incarceration, they face many issues, such as victimization, severe verbal harassment, purposeful humiliation, unwanted sexual advances, physical assault, forcible sex, and unwanted strip searches. (English)
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. (English)
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There is a need for a better understanding of the issues and needs of this population to promote positive outcomes. (English)
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