Personality and Demographic Characteristics of Persons with Gender Dysphoria Referred to Legal Medicine Center of Tehran from 2016 to 2021

Purpose: This research was conducted to identify the personality and demographic characteristics of gender dysphoric people to increase awareness about this group of clients who were referred to the legal process of sex transition.Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The data were extracted from the results of personality tests of 130 people with gender dysphoria who were referred to the legal medicine center of Tehran province between 2016 and 2021. The results were analyzed using t-statistics and variance analysis using SPSS 26 software.Results: The number of trans women (assigned male at birth) was 23 and the number of trans men (assigned female at birth) was 107 (ratio 1 to 4.6). The average age of the study group was 23.5 years. The results of this study show that the mood characteristics of gender dysphoria are different based on gender. People with gender dysphoria scored higher on the depression scale and comparing the two groups, the depression scale is higher in women with gender dysphoria. The personality characteristics of social introversion of gender dysphoric people are also different from normal people based on gender and birth order.Conclusions: The high prevalence of trans men seeking sex transition could be due to cultural reasons. The effect of age, education, birth order, and loss of parents on the personality traits of people with gender dysphoria was not confirmed. there appears to be a significant difference in masculinity-femininity, depression, and social isolation between gender dysphoric people and others based on gender.