Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A persistent unease with having the physical characteristics of one's gender, accompanied by strong identification with the opposite gender and a desire to live as or to become a member of the opposite gender.
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- noun A profound and persistent unhappiness related to one's physical
sex .
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Everything could have been deemed by taking one look at my body because society assumes that’s what we’re bred and born to do,” he said of the gender dysphoria — a psychology term to describe the emotional effects a person experiences when there’s a disconnect between their gender identity and biological sex — he endured throughout Acts 1 and 2.
Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina's Lachlan Watson Talks Life Inside 'The Gender Void' MTV 2018
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