Diagnosing Difference is a feature-length length documentary featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender non-binary) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.

How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)? Historically, doctors and psychiatrists have positioned themselves as the "experts" on transgender experiences, creating diagnoses that inform legal policies, health care and even everyday social aspects of life. Diagnosing Difference features interviews with diverse scholars, activists and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer and gender variant) about the impact of Gender Identity Disorder on their lives and communities. Susan Stryker, Dean Spade, Ryka Aoki, Shawna Virago and nine others offer their personal voices to the debate around the diagnosis. This documentary is groundbreaking and incredibly timely, as the 5th edition of the DSM is scheduled for publication by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013. Whether this revision will include Gender Identity Disorder as a diagnosis currently remains a dilemma both among health care professionals and trans communities.