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QuoteJune 12, 2006 The trans catch-22 In order to get "treated" for being transsexual—meaning hormones and, perhaps, surgery—you first have to be diagnosed. But calling trans people sick creates the same stigma gay people faced for decades. Part six in our ongoing series. By Joanne HermanAs a transsexual woman, I have a mental disorder. Or so says the current Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM IV) of the American Psychiatric Association. My diagnosis code is 302.85--Gender Identity Disorder of Adolescence or Adulthood (GID). Gay men and lesbians used to have a mental disorder too. That was true until homosexuality was removed from the DSM in 1973. Why am I still in the big book of mental disorders 33 years after you were removed?
QuoteJoanne Herman is the first transgender member of the boards of the PointFoundation, a scholarship lifeline for LGBT students, and of Gay andLesbian Advocates and Defenders, the New England LGBT legal rightsorganization that brought same-sex marriage to Massachusetts. She isalso a member of the advisory board of the National Center forTransgender Equality.
