gender identity disorder

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gender identity disorder (countable and uncountable, plural gender identity disorders)

  1. A condition in which the patient experiences significant gender dysphoria: the diagnostic classification most commonly applied to transgender/transsexual people.
    Synonym: (abbreviation) GID

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Reclassified as gender dysphoria in 2013, with the release of the DSM-5.

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