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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)

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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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2020-06-15

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In its then-most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1952) (DSM-I), the American Psychiatric Association (APA) classified same-sex attraction as a "sexual deviation," a particular type of "sociopathic personality disturbance," id. , at 38-39, and the next edition, issued in 1968, similarly classified homosexuality as a "sexual deviatio[n]," Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 44 (2d ed.) (DSM-II). It was not until the sixth printing of the DSM-II in 1973 that this was changed.23