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.

Examples of gender identity disorder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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). —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

Word History

First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

gender identity disorder

noun

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.