Gender identity disorders (F64)
The ICD-10 codes under F64 cover various gender identity disorders, including transsexualism, dual role transvestism, and gender identity disorder in childhood. These codes help medical professionals document and classify conditions related to an individual's gender identity experience.
This section includes F64.0, which identifies transsexualism, often referred to as gender dysphoria in adolescence and adulthood or the desire to live as the opposite sex, with terms like male-to-female transsexual and female-to-male transsexual linked to this code. F64.1 is specific for dual role transvestism, commonly known as cross-dressing. F64.2 refers to gender identity disorder of childhood, also called gender dysphoria in childhood. The codes F64.8 and F64.9 cover other or unspecified gender identity disorders, including terms like psychosexual identity disorder and issues related to sexual relationship difficulties due to gender identity confusion. Understanding these codes is essential for accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and insurance purposes when addressing complex gender identity conditions.
Clinical Terms
The following clinical terms provide additional context, helping users better understand the clinical background and common associations for each diagnosis listed in this section. Including related terms alongside ICD-10-CM codes supports coders, billers, and healthcare professionals in improving accuracy, enhancing documentation, and facilitating research or patient education.
Gender Dysphoria
A marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign to the individual, and it must continue for at least six months. (from DSM-5)
Gender Identity
A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
Transsexualism
Expression of a GENDER IDENTITY inconsistent with, or not culturally-associated with the gender assigned to an individual at birth, combined with the desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify.
