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What's a teen gender identity disorder?

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Born wrong body: Gender identity disorder is when one feels as if they have been born the wrong gender. There is an aversion to the body parts that represent their birth gender as well as an overall identification with the opposite sex - regardless of sexual orientation. People with gid typically feel this way from early childhood but it may get worse in adolescence as secondary sex traits appear.

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

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GID: Youth who are discontent with the sex they are assigned at birth &/or the gender roles associated with that sex. Onedescription is transsexual youth.

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A Stigmatizing Term: Gid= now-discarded diagnostic category from american psychiatric association's diagnostic "bible." until recently, gid was used 2 diagnose as "disordered" persons whose gender identity ("i view myself a man/woman or both or neither or other") &/or gender expression ("i look &/or behave stereotypically male/female or both or neither or other") wasn't consistent w/sex they were assigned at birth.

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