Stats/"Is Schrödinger's Cat Male?"

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A characteristic of the modern West is the peripheral has moved to the center. Everyone is in the spotlight. This change in how we think is as important as what we think. Some stats and perspectives. (Some of this information is presented from reviews written when these questions were thought to be illnesses. The DSM-5 still classifies GD as a diagnosis.)

Gender dysphoria (GD) according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM 5) is defined as a “marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth.” It was previously termed "gender identity disorder."

Children or adolescents who experience this turmoil cannot correlate to their gender expression when identifying themselves within traditional societal binary male or female roles, which may cause cultural stigmatization.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, gender dysphoria prevalence accounts for 0.005–0.014% of the population for biological males and 0.002–0.003% for biological females. In both Japan and Poland, the prevalence of gender dysphoria is higher in biological females.

According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.

Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBQT-affirming countries.

Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD) are human illnesses that cause the development of ambiguous genitalia in newborns and children. This is not dysphoria.

Most DSDs can be diagnosed and the outcomes predicted; physicians use the diagnosis to advise parents on which gender the child is likely to identify with. For instance, the most common cause for a DSD is congenital adrenal hyperplasia — which can result in ambiguous genitalia for XX children. This is an illness of the adrenal glands where steroids are made imperfectly. This is a treatable biochemical defect. Between 90% and 95% of people with the condition identify as female.
Adrenogenital syndrome is 100% curable. (This was the condition of the Press sisters, two women who were untreated by the Soviet state so that they could compete in women's international sports. Tamara Press dominated the women's field events in the late 50s and 60s.}

As many as 1 out of 30,000 adult males seek sexual reassignment surgery (sex change).

At least 1 out of 100,000 adult females seek sexual reassignment surgery (sex change).

About 80% of mothers and 45% of fathers of individuals with Gender Identity Disorder had a psychiatric problem or had psychiatric treatment.
About 24% of children live with their mothers only, with the absence of a father or surrogate father figure at home according to the 2012 U.S. Census figure (double the 1977 figure.)
In homes of boys that are severely disturbed with Gender Identity Disorder, the father is absent 100% of the time.

According to a recent national survey, 1.4 million individuals (0.6%) in the United States identify as transgender.

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome affects 2 to 5 per 100,000 people who are genetically male. Partial androgen insensitivity is thought to be at least as common as complete androgen insensitivity. Mild androgen insensitivity is much less common. In androgen insensitivity, male hormones and anatomy are normal but the cells do not recognize androgen stimulation and do not develop maleness. This, like the adrenogenital syndrome, results in a true dichotomy between the genetic and phenotypic. 

The model Hanne Gaby Odiele in 2015.

8,920: number of provisionally reported TB cases in the United States in 2019 (a rate of 2.7 per 100,000 persons) .

Testicular cancer occurs in about 1 in 100,00.

Birth defects affect one in every 33 babies (about 3% of all babies) born in the United States each year.

Each year, about 6,000 babies born in the United States have Down syndrome. This means that Down syndrome occurs in about 1 in every 700 babies.

So, how does the psychodynamic work? Or is this just a variation of the gender spectrum? And the DMS-5 definition implies "distress;" what about those who experience no distress? 

An opinion from an article on Johns Hopkins' McHugh, who works the dynamic side. A piece: "Dr. McHugh does not believe surgery cures gender dysphoria. He thinks that condition, along with anorexia and body dysmorphia, is a “disorder of assumption,” characterized by an “overvalued idea,” or a ruling passion that “fulminates in the mind of the subject, growing more dominant over time, more refined, and more resistant to challenge,” as he has written.
In the case of anorexia, the overvalued idea is that it’s good to be thin. The primary goal of the psychiatrist ought to be to help the patient change behavior. The prevailing standard of care for sufferers of gender dysphoria—“affirmative care”—is the opposite: It calls for mental-health professionals to accept both a patient’s self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and the corresponding behavior."

We are in a fascinating time where we minutely search for norms. But that search is beginning to include diverse seekers. All data is available for comment and available to all. It is a time where the removed observer is at a disadvantage.