Jimmy believes he was born into the wrong sex. He has known all his life that he should have been a girl, and when he was able to, he began dressing like a woman and eventually plans to get gender reassignment surgery to make his body more feminine. Jimmy's distress about his gender is called ______.

A. sexual confusion
B. gender utopia
C. gender dysphoria
D. gender reassignment


Answer: C

Psychology

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