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Background
The recent reclassification of gender identity disorder as gender dysphoria (GD) in DSM‐5 identifies those seeking to pursue gender transition via specialist services as necessarily ‘distressed’ and therefore mentally disordered. Distress in gender variant clients may arise from a variety of stressors, external and intra‐psychic, many of which may have their roots in childhood experience...