Abstract: This paper is focused on examining the degree of gender dysphoria of transgender men before they underwent a cross hormonal treatment. They were given a clinical assessment and interview about how they come out with the decision to take testosterone treatment and how does it affects their physical and psychosocial-emotional changes. Case study design concurrent triangulation strategy was utilized in this study. There were three cases of transgender men who were willingly volunteered to be part of the study. The five-point Likert instrument, Gender Dysphoria Propensity Scale (GDPS) developed by the author was administered to 155 Proud gays and 154 proud lesbians with an inter item reliability Cronbach alpha of .95. Scores were tallied with a mean of 4.72 which means they have severe tendency to associate or manifest behavior of Gender Dysphoria which they undergo severe disturbance in terms of mind-body incongruence. They have the tendency to feel that they are disconnected to their body or wrongfully trapped to that body to the extent that they are preoccupied of suicidal ideation. Hence, the only solution is cross-sex hormonal treatment. The result was complimented by clinical interview and now that they are taking testosterone for at least one year, major impact and changes on their life expectations were revealed.
Keywords: Gender Dysphoria, Transgender Men, Hormonal Replacement Therapy, Cross- Hormonal Treatment, Transsexual, LGBT.
Title: Gender Dysphoria among Transgender Men and the Physical and Psychosocio-Emotional Effects of Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Author: Josephine P. Manapsal MP, RP
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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