Why is it wrong to say that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder?

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Gender Dysphoria is the distress associated with gender incongruence. It appears in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, and is diagnosed as a mental disorder.

Being transgender doesn't always come with Dysphoria, and it is that that isn't a mental disorder.