Response of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to the Proposed DSM 5 Criteria for Gender Incongruence

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Griet De Cuypere, Gail Knudson, and Waler Bockting are co-chairs of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) consensus-building process on recommendations for revision of the DSM diagnoses of Gender Identity Disorders. On behalf of the Board of Directors of WPATH, the authors submit the following response to the diagnosis of Gender Incongruence proposed by the DSM 5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders (WGSGID) of the American Psychiatric Association as published on the Web site DSM5.org.