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| 11. Susan's Place Library: The great myth
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| All of us, whether we know it or not, are affected by a great myth that has been "documented" by the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM III-R, as it is commonly known. This manual defines crossdressers in the context of a mental disorder tied to fetishistic behavior. As you can see, this distorts our emotions and paints a false picture of our lifestyle. by Joan Hoff. |
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| 12. The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry
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| In 1973, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted to delete homosexuality as a mental disorder from the seventh printing of the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-II. Twenty-three years later, the inclusion of diagnostic categories for Gender Identity Disorder and Transvestic Fetishism in the fourth edition of the DSM continues to raise questions of consistency. In this paper, issues of gender identity and sexual orientation are compared in light of current definitions of mental disorder. |
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