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dysphoria

[dis-fawr-ee-uh] / dɪsˈfɔr i ə /
NOUN
unhappiness
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Gender Dysphoria is a feeling of discomfort or distress some transgender people feel regarding a disconnection between gender and sex in the body.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

A clinical study, run by the new Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria Research and Oversight Board, will look at the impact of drugs which delay puberty.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

To that I would say: Dysphoria is not simply internalized misogyny turned up to 11.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

Ms. Grace, who is transgender, has been thrust into the spokeswoman spotlight since the band’s transformative 2014 album, “Transgender Dysphoria Blues.”

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2016

Dysphoria, dis-fō′ri-a, n. impatience under affliction, morbid restlessness.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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