People can experience dysphoria in so many different ways, there’s never going to be a perfect “this is what dysphoria feels like” check-list to go through.
Generally speaking, gender dysphoria is a feeling of discomfort with being seen as or treated as a gender that you’re not. This can be relating to social situations, how people perceive you and talk about you – what pronouns and names they use for you etc – or regarding your body (or specific parts of your body) and how you and society as a whole genders it.
This discomfort can show itself in a lot of different ways, some of them obvious and some of them more sneaky. It can feel like outright nausea or something close to physical pain, it can feel like a dull sadness, it can feel like annoyance or anger, and many other negative feelings of varying intensity. The one thing that’s overarching is that it’s a bad feeling, something uncomfortable, something that tells you that something isn’t right.
And it’s common for these feelings to fluctuate as well; few of the trans people I’ve known have had the exact same amount of dysphoria felt in the exact same way all the time.
Some more writing related to gender dysphoria are here, if you’re interested in reading a bit more:
what does dysphoria feel like? i’m award it’s different for different people but i’m having a trouble knowing if i’m feeling dysphoric or not. i’m sorry if this is a horrible question
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