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Billie Worf, a person with gender dysphoria, has exhibited a strong desire to be a girl since childhood. She feels discomfort with assigned gender roles and significant distress relating to her gender identity. These feelings have persisted into adulthood, leading her to pursue hormone therapy and consider sex reassignment surgery. According to DSM-5, the symptoms of gender dysphoria include a strong desire to be of another gender, discomfort with assigned gender, and significant distress or impairment. Billie's experiences align with these criteria, as she has felt uncomfortable with masculine activities since childhood, experienced distress during typically male play activities, and felt more comfortable and happy engaging in traditionally feminine activities. Her distress has also affected her choices, such as avoiding the gym due to discomfort in locker rooms. Now, moving forward to gender dysphoria, we'll be talking about the symptoms in DSM-5. For this case, we'll be talking about Billie Worf. Billie, ever since from childhood, Billie has exhibited a strong desire to be a girl. Feeling discomfort with assigned gender roles, significant distress relating to her gender identity, according to Morrison. This feeling persisted into adulthood, leading her to pursue hormone therapy and consider sex reassignment surgery. So, according to DSM-5, the symptoms are strong desire to be of other gender, discomfort with assigned gender, significant distress, or impairment. Also, according to gender dysphoria. With the criteria, it's stated that Billie desires she – actually, she described her feeling uncomfortable with masculine activities in her role since childhood. And she experienced distress while engaging in typically male play activities, and also felt more comfortable and happy when engaging in traditionally feminine activities. And with the last symptoms, where she felt distress, Billie's feelings of discomfort and desire to be of other gender have persisted throughout her life. And it has caused distress, according to her. She stated that she just wants to get rid of it, get rid of all. Her distress also affected her choices, such as avoiding the gym due to discomfort in locker rooms. So, those are her examples.