Over the last decade, mental health practitioners have increasingly diagnosed minors with gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder used to describe a person’s mental distress about their biological sex. Gender dysphoria was once considered to be a very rare psychological disorder. As the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) for Mental Disorders IV-TR stated, “only a very small number of children with Gender Identity Disorder [Gender Dysphoria] will continue to meet criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in adolescence or adulthood” (APA, 2000, p. 579). Today, the ideas contained in this diagnosis are used both formally and informally with much greater frequency than at any time in the history of the diagnostic construct (Bachmann et al., 2024; Sun et al., 2023; Horowitz, 2025).
Social Transition is An Dangerous intervention That is Supposed to Treat gender dysphoria. Social transition is not evidence-based but it is potentially harmful. The gender affirming care model (GAC) has been the predominant intervention used to treat gender dysphoria, which is a mental disorder that occurs when a person has psychological distress about their biological sex.
This Act prohibits social transition interventions for minors based on the absence of empirical evidence supporting their use and documented evidence of harm. It recognizes that gender dysphoria is a psychological condition requiring proper assessment and treatment of underlying issues, but that social transition is not an evidence-based intervention and should not be employed by mental health professionals, educators, or any other persons.
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