gender identity disorder
noun
plural gender identity disorders
now usually offensive
: gender dysphoria
Note: This term is now usually considered offensive in its implication that the distressed state arising from conflict between a person's gender identity and the sex the person was identified as having at birth is an abnormal condition. Gender dysphoria is the preferred term in both medical and general contexts.
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Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, a Dutch clinical psychologist specializing in children, began receiving referrals of teenagers who were experiencing gender dysphoria (then called gender identity disorder).
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New York Times, 15 June 2022
That was a time when some insurance plans considered a prior diagnosis of gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder to be a preexisting condition.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
But the medical community used other terms in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM, to pathologize gender nonconformity, including transsexualism and gender identity disorder.
—Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 31 May 2018
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New York Times, 15 June 2022
That was a time when some insurance plans considered a prior diagnosis of gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder to be a preexisting condition.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
But the medical community used other terms in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM, to pathologize gender nonconformity, including transsexualism and gender identity disorder.
—Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 31 May 2018
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“Gender identity disorder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender%20identity%20disorder. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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