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Gender dysphoria in children, also known as gender identity disorder in children or gender incongruence of childhood, is a formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe children who experience significant discontent (gender dysphoria) with their biological sex, assigned gender, or both.

GIDC was formalized in the third revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in 1980 and primarily referenced gender non-conforming behaviors. GIDC remained in the DSM from 1980 to 2013, when it was replaced with the diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" in the fifth revision (DSM-5), in an effort to diminish the stigma attached to gender variance while maintaining a diagnostic route to gender affirming medical interventions such as hormone therapy and surgery.

Hemingway (right) with brother Patrick and father Ernest in Finca Vigía, Cuba in 1942

Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. In her 60s, she underwent gender transition surgery, and preferred the name Gloria when possible.

A good athlete and a crack shot, Gloria longed to be a typical Hemingway hero and trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and it ultimately cost her her medical license in the United States. Gloria maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a bar in drag caused an argument between Ernest and Gloria's mother Pauline. Pauline died from a psychological stress-related condition the following day, which Ernest blamed on Gloria and Gloria later believed to have been caused by Ernest.

• ... that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times?
• ... that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery?
• ... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?
• ... that Quinn became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team?

• 1 – Christine and the Queens (1988), French non-binary singer and songwriter
• 3 – Daniela Vega (1989), Chilean transgender actress
• 5 – Buck Angel (1962), American adult film actor and producer
• 9 – Parinya Charoenphol (1981), Thai boxer, model and actress
• 9 – Bülent Ersoy (1952), Turkish singer and actress
• 9 – Roz Kaveney (1949), English transgender author
• 10 – Laerte (1951), Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter
• 13 – Violet Chachki (1992), American genderqueer drag queen and musician
• 15 – Tash Sultana (1995), non-binary Australian singer-songwriter and musician
• 16 – Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), American transgender activist and author
• 19 – Erik Schinegger (1948), Austrian athlete
• 21 – Lana Wachowski (1965), American director, writer, producer
• 22 – Jennifer Finney Boylan (1958), American author
• 28 – Ataru Nakamura (1985), Japanese trans woman singer, songwriter, actress
• 30 – Elliot Fletcher (1996), American actor

• ... that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words "gay", "lesbian", and "transgender"?
• ... that Nicole Maines won a Maine Supreme Court ruling that denying transgender students access to the bathroom consistent with their gender was unlawful, and went on to become the superheroine Dreamer in the television series Supergirl?
• ... that in 1776, a person reported being genderless, changed names to the Public Universal Friend, dressed androgynously, asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns, and has been called a chapter in transgender history "before 'transgender'"?

But if we cannot know what causes transsexuality, we can know a great deal about it. We can acknowledge its power and its reality, we can learn about other transsexual people and their experiences, and we can discover its ancient worldwide history.