Gender dysphoria as a American cultural syndrome

Abstract

The diagnosis "gender dysphoria", proposed by the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), is presented as a American "cultural syndrome". This illustrates the expansionist tendency of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to regiment gender-based transit experiences that escape the matrix of intelligibility centered around the male / female. Against this diagnosis, forged by American binary thinking, in the mold of the so-called disease mongering, we oppose the experience of the Brazilian travesti as a radical alterity to the established gender intelligibility matrix.