SOCIAL MEDIA
Portuguese Medical Association's Scientific Journal
Dear Editors,
We have read with great interest the article “Coping with Gender Dysphoria in a Rural Environment during Adolescence” published in May 2024. In this article, the authors reported a case of an adolescent with gender dysphoria, emphasizing the importance of a multidisciplinary, patient-centered approach to improve outcomes in this population. Gender incongruence (GI) is defined as a discrepancy between an individual’s gender identity and their assigned sex at birth and it is classified as gender dysphoria when it is associated with clinically significant distress.