Depathologize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cease to treat as a medical disorder. transitive

    "[…] by the 1970s, members of Tri-Ess were engineering newspaper articles and appearances on television to popularize and depathologize cross-dressing and help isolated heterosexual cross-dressers and their wives obtain support."

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"[…] by the 1970s, members of Tri-Ess were engineering newspaper articles and appearances on television to popularize and depathologize cross-dressing and help isolated heterosexual cross-dressers and their wives obtain support."

Etymology

From de- + pathologize.

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