Word: dysphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rivers, who has taught at Center High since 1990, began taking hormones last January, and in May notified school authorities that she was suffering from "gender dysphoria," a medical condition in which a person believes himself or herself to be psychically of the opposite sex. She said she would return to class in the fall dressed as a female, in preparation for a sex-change operation next year. "If you are gay or lesbian, you can make a choice whether to tell people," she says. "I don't have that luxury...