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Abstract Aim and Background: Gender Dysphoric disorder is a phenomenon with unclear cause and has a strong impact on affected person and his/her family. We designed a study to compare perception of people with and without Gender dysphoria regarding Family function. Methods and Materials: During a correlatioal study and through easy sampling we included 30 Gender dysphonic people and 30 non Tran’s participants from people who were referring to Navid bakhsh clinic in Isfahan. All participants completed Farsi version of FAD-53 questionnaire and additional questions regarding their demographic data. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 19 with compare means by independent-samples T test. Findings: The analysis of data indicated a significant differences between two groups  about their perception regarding Relationship components (p=0.000), Emotional involvement (p=0.001), Role Playing (p=0.000), Problem solving (p=0.049). The person’s with Gender Dysphonic disorder had a low Performance in these components. Conclusions: Our results show that Gender Dysphoric people have more difficulties in relationship and emotional issues, role playing and problem solving in their families. Our findings might be helpful in planning for intervention in this type of families. Further studies are warranted with greater sample size to compare family functioning and attachment style of gender dysphonic people.  

Keywords: Components communication, Emotional involvement, Gender Dysphasia, Family functioning&, nbsp

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