Clinical term describing gender dysphoria and related conditions. There have been movements to persuade the medical community to cease classifying this as a mental disorder.
As defined by medical doctors and psychologists, a condition where one who has been assigned a gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex) but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them.
A mental disorder invented by psychiatrists in the 1980's to compensate for loss of business when homosexuality was declared to not be a disease. The phrase is constantly being redefined, lacks a scientific basis, but presumably means something about transgender expression.
A strong and persistent gender identification, which is desired to be, or the insistence that one is, of the other sex.
See gender, gender dysphoria, transsexual, transgender.
A syndrome characterized by an intense and persistent sense of identity as someone of the opposite gender causing significant emotional distress and social and occupational impairment
A medical term used to denote any person who strongly and persistently identifies with the (seemingly) opposite sex. Also called Gender Dysphoria.
Gender identity disorder, as identified by psychologists and medical doctors, is a condition in which a person has been assigned one gender, usually on the basis of their sex at birth (compare intersexuality), but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them. It is a psychiatric term for what is widely known as transsexuality, transgender identity, and transvestism or cross-dressing (GID may or may not be present in the latter).
