Gender dysphoria is necessary is to be trans

Gender dysphoria is necessary is to be trans; people without it are, by definition, cis (whether they're gender non-conforming or not). To be diagnosed with gender dysphoria (for adults, the criteria is different for children), an individual must experience at least two of the following symptoms for a period of at least six months.

• A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics
• A strong desire to be rid of one’s primary and/or secondary sex characteristics
• A strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender
• A strong desire to be of the other gender
• A strong desire to be treated as the other gender
• A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender

In addition to this, the individual must experience clinically significant distress, which is a vaguely defined medical term most commonly used in a similar manner to "clinically observable symptoms". More simply: if you are distressed enough to transition, it is clinically significant/observable.

"I don't have dysphoria, I pass as my assigned gender and I'm not even on hormones, but I call myself trans so I am trans tee hee!" is something that only a trender would say. Miss me with that shit.

/uj found verbatim on r/anime_irl