I see very often the current transmed community describing dysphoria as ‘discomfort with sex characteristics’. I feel like this is a response to tucutes and an attempt to say ‘actually, you’ve been feeling dysphoria all along’.
The issue is that it’s by no means only trans people that feel discomfort with of a disconnect from their sex characteristics. A very large group of natal women feel the discomfort with especially secondary sexual characteristics, but that by no means makes them trans.
A far more fitting definition would be ‘acute distress with one’s sex characteristics that can be treated via transition’.
If you’re uncomfortable having a penis but don’t specifically want a vagina, that’s not dysphoria. If you’re uncomfortable with having breasts but don’t specifically want male pecs, that’s not dysphoria. And if you only want one or two of the outcomes of transition, but not other main ones - if you want a beard but don’t want male pattern fat distribution, for example - consider long and hard if you’re actually suffering from dysphoria, or if there’s another source of the discomfort. Do you hate you’re breasts because you want a male body, or do you hate them because from a young age you’ve been told simultaneously that they’re too small, unattractive, too big, you’re a slut, etc?
This is by no means exclusive of those that cannot or choose not to pursue medical transition - there are not enough studies on the effects of hrt on the body, and it’s completely reasonable to be exceedingly uncomfortable trialling potentially unsafe drugs on your own body.
And if your response to this is ‘you’re saying that trans people have to hate their bodies to be trans’ - yeah, pretty much. I don’t hate my body, never have, but it causes me significant distress. If you’re completely comfortable in your body (and didn’t achieve this through transition), you aren’t trans. And if you insist you are? Then you’re explicitly claiming that there’s a difference between men and women that isn’t entirely physical - that men and women feel differently, think differently, genetically, and there cannot be overlap. If that’s the case - I know some old white men in congress you might have a lot in common with :)