"NAVIGATING EARLY GENDER IDENTITY; INSIGHTS FROM AN 8 YEAR OLD'S JOURNEY"

Abstract

Children are assigned to their gender at birth that is based on their anatomy and their chromosomes. The gender identity is basically and innate sense of identifying oneself as a male or female (Garg etal.,2023)."Gender dysphoria "is defined as marked incongruence between an individual's experienced gender/expressed gender and the one that was assigned gender at birth (Dsm-5, 2013). Gender dysphoria is basically an association of a person's dissatisfaction and their physical appearances. An unhappy or unfavorable physical appearance will lead to confused perception of gender identity. An individual's dissatisfaction is due to mismatch between gender experienced and gender attributed to them (Grift et al., 2016).The prevalence of experiencing oneself as having incongruent identity is 0.6 to 1.1% while feeling of belonging to a different sex range is 2.1% to 2.6 %(Dsm-5, 2013).