The Term Gender Identity Disorder Was Replaced in DSM-5 with a New

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Multiple Choice

The term gender identity disorder was replaced in DSM-5 with a new diagnostic term, gender dysphoria, to emphasize which of the following?

• A) The discomfort or distress that transgender people may experience from the mismatch between their gender identity and their designated gender.
• B) The loss of cultural interactions privileges associated with their previous sex.
• C) The difficulty in choosing the sex of partners to form relationships and become intimate with.
• D) The inability for transgender individuals to be able to become comfortable with any aspect of their identity at any point in their lives.

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Definitions:

Level of Promiscuity

A measure or assessment of an individual's or population's engagement in varying degrees of casual sexual activity.

Ordinal

Pertaining to data types or variables that represent categories with a meaningful order but no consistent difference between adjacent categories.

Ordinal

Pertaining to a type of data or scale that reflects order or ranking among categories, without indicating magnitude differences.

Categorical

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