Human Growth and Development / Unit 10 HGD 1381 short lesson, about 20 seconds
From Illness to Variation
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The idea
Psychology once treated same-sex orientation as an illness; the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the DSM in nineteen seventy-three.
In practice
Gallup finding nine percent of US adults identifying as LGBTQ+ in twenty twenty-five, up from under four percent in twenty twelve.
Where people slip
Same-sex orientation is now understood as normal human variation.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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