Definition: Gender Identity Disorder is a term used by physicians and psychologists to classify people who are transgender or transsexual. Gender Identity Disorder is a DSM-IV diagnosis that many transgender and transsexual people find offensive because it implies that something is wrong with them. Gender Identity Disorder has been used against gay, lesbian and gender-variant people (frequently children or adolescents) in order to force them into psychotherapy, mental institutions or conversion therapy.
Next Term: Gender Variance
Also Known As: Gender Dysphoria
