I cannot believe the transphobia on this website. Let's hope none of your children have gender dysmorphia. You'll change your tunes then.
Interesting fact that no-one's commented on yet: it's not gender DYSMORPHIA, as stoned says: it's gender "dysphoria".
It's quite the telling Freudian slip, isn't it. Because "body dysmorphia", where people (young girls in particular) think they are ugly, and don't fit into social beauty standards, is treated as a mental illness: and those people are given counselling to help them accept their body as it is, and to come to terms with reality and the fact that they aren't ugly, they just don't necessarily look like they think they do in their heads. The vast majority of sufferers are women, and the idea of treatment is to help them to accept their normality and come to realise that they are wrong about how they perceive their bodies.
Whereas, if your "body dysmorphia" [sic] takes the form of believing that you are "born in the wrong body" because your body doesn't fit with the idea in your head BECAUSE GENDER, you are not helped to come to terms with your feelings and how they differ from your bodily reality. You are affirmed in that and set on a path to hormones and maybe surgery, and also given the idea that if other people don't also affirm the feelings in your head, it's them who are wrong about your body.
Tell me: why don't we tell people with BDD that they are ugly and fund cosmetic surgery for them ASAP? (And if we did, I might start presenting to medical professionals as having BDD as I've always felt I look less beautiful than I really am inside and it's genuinely caused me a lot of mental health problems throughout my life to feel so ugly.)
Why do we only do it when it's to do with sex/gender?