gender euphoria

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Noun

gender euphoria (uncountable)

  1. The profound feeling of joy and comfort that some transgender people and others feel when their internal gender identity aligns with their external gender presentation.
    Antonym: gender dysphoria
    Even though he wasn't out as trans to anyone yet, he felt a rush of gender euphoria when the waiter called him "sir."
    • 2024, Alana S. Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, Bad Habit, 4th Estate, page 106:
      I discovered that, although elusive and fleeting, gender euphoria did exist, and it was bursting out everywhere from inside me. In that bedroom, during that encounter, I didn’t want to be anyone else but me, for the first time in my life.

References

  • Benestad, E. E. P. “From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria: An Assisted Journey.” Sexologies, Sexological treatment in Northern Europe / Prises en charge sexologiques en Europe du nord, 19, no. 4 (October 1, 2010): 225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sexol.2010.09.003.
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