)In a 1988 interview with a trans man, the subject states, "I think that day [Dr. Charles Ilhenfeld] administered my first shot of the wonder-drug must have been one of the peak-experiences of my life -- talk about gender euphoria!" The interview indicates he is referring to testosterone.In 1989, Mariette Pathy Allen published an unnamed transgender persons quote in her photography book Transformations: "The shrinks may call it gender dysphoria, but for some of us, its gender euphoria, and were not going to apologize anymore! "In 1990, Virginia Prince used the phrase in trans magazine Femme Mirror, ending an article with, "...from here on you can enjoy GENDER EUPHORIA - HAVE A GOOD LIFE! "Starting in 1991, a monthly newsletter named Gender Euphoria was released, featuring articles about transgender topics; Leslie Feinberg read the newsletter to better understand the transgender community. In 1993, the blurb of Nan Goldins The Other Side read, "The pictures in this book are not of people suffering dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria. "In 1994, Scottish "TV/TS" periodical The Tartan Skirt wrote, "Lets accentuate the positive, discard the negative, and promote the new condition of Gender Euphoria. "In 1997, Patrick Califia described transgender activists picketing using signs that read "Gender Euphoria NOT Gender Dysphoria" and handing out "thousands of leaflets" at protests. The following year, in 1998, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality reported:The transactivist group Transexual Menace is campaigning to have the diagnosis "Gender Identity Disorder" removed entirely from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics oppose bans on puberty blockers for transgender children. In the UK, in the case of Bell v Tavistock, an appeal court, overturning the original decision, ruled that children under 16 could give consent to receiving puberty blockers. Psychological treatments
Until the 1970s, psychotherapy was the primary treatment for gender dysphoria and generally was directed to helping the person adjust to their assigned sex. Psychotherapy is any therapeutic interaction that aims to treat a psychological problem. Psychotherapy may be used in addition to biological interventions, although some clinicians use only psychotherapy to treat gender dysphoria. Psychotherapeutic treatment of GD involves helping the patient to adapt to their gender incongruence or to explorative investigation of confounding co-occurring mental health issues. Attempts to alleviate GD by changing the patients gender identity to reflect assigned sex have been ineffective and are regarded as conversion therapy by most health organizations. : 1741

Biological treatments
Biological treatments physically alter primary and secondary sex characteristics to reduce the discrepancy between an individuals physical body and gender identity. Biological treatments for GD are typically undertaken in conjunction with psychotherapy; however, the WPATH Standards of Care state that psychotherapy should not be an absolute requirement for biological treatments.Hormonal treatments have been shown to reduce a number of symptoms of psychiatric distress associated with gender dysphoria.