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When compared to their cisgender counterparts, gender diverse minorities face stressors created by the invalidation of their identities, as well as the way these identities are viewed socially and culturally. Riggs and Treharne, who presented the Gender Minority Stress Framework, theorized that instead of the minority stress framework's idea that distal and proximal stress are a series of loads held by an individual, the stressors on these individuals also stem from the way their identities are positioned in their society (Tan, et al., 2020). As mentioned in the SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, because of the way these are stigmatized identities in popular culture and within society, these individuals face a different set of stressors that are not covered by the minority stress model, which addresses sexual minorities (Feinstein). Because of the way these identities are juxtaposed against cisgender identities, they have been prone to negative mental illness classifications in the past. Before the label of gender dysphoria became prominent to identify certain feelings about one's gender identity, these gender diverse individuals often fell under the classifications such as gender identity disorder (Tan, et al., 2020).