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gender identity disorder  

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  • Gender identity disorder (GID) is a psychiatric diagnosis that mental health and medical professionals apply to people who were assigned one gender at birth and subsequently identify with another gender or who do not adhere to the gender role associated with their assigned gender. The GID diagnosis appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) most recent official listing of psychiatric disorders. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Gender Identity Disorder]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CRZLJC2K-2

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