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DSM-5 aims to avoid stigma and ensure clinical care for individuals who see and feel themselves to be a
different gender than their assigned gender. It replaces the diagnostic name “gender identity disorder”
with “gender dysphoria,” as well as makes other important clarifications in the criteria. It is important
to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria
is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.
To get insurance coverage for the medical treatments, individuals need a diagnosis. The Sexual
and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group was concerned that removing the condition as a psychiatric
diagnosis—as some had suggested—would jeopardize access to care.
Part of removing stigma is about choosing the right words. Replacing “disorder” with “dysphoria” in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation that the patient is “disordered.”
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: InTheLight
Why would they need mental health experts if this is not a mental illness?
Do you even understand what you are typing?
In the past nine years I have treated or assessed 220 males presenting with Gender Dysphoria. Taking the most generous estimate of the occurrence of Klinefelter’s in the male population, 1/500, you would have expected 0.44 of these patients to have had that problem. There have been three – not counting the mosaic, the man with Congenital Hypogonadism or of course the one not my patient. This means on my figures Gender Dysphoria occurs in men with Klinefelter’s Syndrome at more than six times the rate in the general male population! While this could be put down simply to awareness of physical difference, I offer it as at least a wisp of evidence that gender identity maybe affected by intrauterine hormone levels.
originally posted by: Painterz
How many threads do you transphobic people need to start? Seriously? What does any of this have to do with Above Top Secret conspiracy theories, aliens, UFOs, etc?
Many influential people began to advocate measures that completely disregarded the most basic of human rights. In 1969, Bernard Berelson, president of the Population Council, recommended punishment for large families and a widespread program of “involuntary fertility controls.” In the same year, Frederick S. Jaffe, vice president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, recommended that the United States government “Encourage increased homosexuality”; place “Fertility control agents in water suppl[ies]”; and “Require women to work and provide few child-care facilities.” He also suggested “Compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies”; “Compulsory sterilization of all who have two children,” and “Stock certificate-type permits for children.”
thewandererpress.com...
The same cast of characters that took control of the National Conference on Women back in 1977 was calling the shots in Cairo. Betty Friedan, Pat Schroeder, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug and other radical feminists were on hand to promote their anti-family agenda to all the nations of the world.
The U.S. pushed the position that abortion should become universally available in every country, and that every nation should embrace freely available abortion as the fundamental right of all women.
"This could be described as the largest Planned Parenthood meeting in history," said Monsignor Peter Elliot, a member of the Vatican's delegation to Cairo. Its purpose was to promote condom usage, abortion, radical feminism and homosexual activism around the world.
www.clintonmemoriallibrary.com...
Richard Nixon, elected president in 1968, agreed that population growth made some freedoms "untenable" and that population control was a top priority in welfare and foreign-aid programs.
Thus, by the end of the 1960s, the U.S. was so deeply immersed in the Culture of Death that "establishment figures" could debate whether "compulsion or broader social changes," like "gender equality" and homosexuality, would best curb population growth. The Population Council then commissioned Disney to create a film in twenty-four languages called Family Planning to make viewers ashamed of having large families, and Judith Blake demanded sexual "indoctrination" in schools and the repeal of laws against homosexuality.
www.newoxfordreview.org...
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: kaylaluv
I think you need to understand that "professionals" were forced to change the name because transgenders and their supporters lobbied to have it changed, not because professionals wanted it to be changed.
Overall the weight of these studies and others points strongly toward a biological basis for gender dysphoria. But given the variety of transgender people and the variation in the brains of men and women generally, it will be a long time, if ever, before a doctor can do a brain scan on a child and say, “Yes, this child is trans.”
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: InTheLight
They just claimed it may be caused by "intrauterine hormone levels". This would prove without a doubt that it is a MENTAL ILLNESS induced by chemical imbalance.
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: kaylaluv
I think you need to understand that "professionals" were forced to change the name because transgenders and their supporters lobbied to have it changed, not because professionals wanted it to be changed.
This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities.
originally posted by: WeAre0ne
a reply to: InTheLight
Yes they are, you are just not educated enough to understand them.
For years advocates have lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to change or remove categories labeling transgender people in a psychiatric manual, arguing that terms like “Gender Identity Disorder” characterize all trans people as mentally ill.
Homosexuality was diagnosed in the DSM as an illness until 1973, and conditions pertaining to homosexuality were not entirely removed until 1987.
“All psychiatric diagnoses occur within a cultural context,” said Jack Drescher, a member of the APA subcommittee working on the revision.
From a legal perspective, the classification of Gender Identity Disorder is extremely harmful to some trans people,
Having a diagnosis is the difference between a necessary medical procedure and something that can be perceived as cosmetic surgery that insurance won’t cover, Drescher says.
that this is a very deep-seated condition recognized by the medical community.”