noun
Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify. People with gender dysphoria is sometimes described as being uncomfortable with their body (particularly developments during puberty) or being uncomfortable with the expected roles of their assigned gender.
(Definition via https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria and https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms)
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