Destigmatization Versus Coverage and Access: The Medical Model of Transsexuality (blog/commentary)
Link4/5/2008
"In recent years, the GLB community has been more receptive to (and
even energized in) assisting the transgender community, but regularly
asks what its needs are. One that is often touted is the "complete
depathologization of Trans identities" (quoting from a press release
for an October 7, 2007 demonstration in Barcelona, Spain) by removing
"Gender Identity Disorder" (GID) from medical classification. The
reasoning generally flows in a logic chain stating that with
homosexuality removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM-IV, the "bible" of the medical community)"
