Section 7

Citation: Section 7
Parent Document: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2020-06-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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Change in DSM–II, 6th Printing, p. 44 (APA Doc. Ref. No. 730008, 1973)
(reclassifying “homosexuality” as a “[s]exual orientation disturbance,” a
category “for individuals whose sexual interests are directed primarily
toward people of the same sex and who are either disturbed by . . . or
wish to change their sexual orientation,” and explaining that “homosex-
uality . . . by itself does not constitute a psychiatric disorder”); see also
APA, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 281–282 (3d
ed. 1980) (DSM–III) (similarly creating category of “Ego-dystonic Homo-
sexuality” for “homosexuals for whom changing sexual orientation is a
persistent concern,” while observing that “homosexuality itself is not con-
sidered a mental disorder”); Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. 644, 661
(2015).
   24 In 1981, after achieving home rule, the District attempted to decrim-

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