DSM 5, Zucker and Blanchard. Please Sign This Petition

[Shana A]

I'm assuming they will verify your name and information once you sign?

I'd assume so.

And for anyone who is concerned about privacy, you can sign it and choose to not have your name displayed publicly!

Z

[tekla]

I doubt they are going to go through the costs of trying to do that.

[cindybc]

Hi, Has anyone thought of forwarding the petition to any other TS forums and message boards for members there to sign?

Cindy

[Wing Walker]

This is on the website for the TS Symposium.  Have a look.

http://ts-si.org/content/view/3194/995/

Wing Walker

[Beyond]

Hi, Has anyone thought of forwarding the petition to any other TS forums and message boards for members there to sign?

Someone originally posted it on BeginningLife and I reposted it here and on Laura's Playground.  I also know it's on True Selves.  And it's also listed on Lynn Conway's news page, so it is getting around.  As of a few minutes ago about 2,000 people have signed!

[cindybc]

Hi Beyond, thank you for the information, That's great, the petition should find it's way around pretty good now.  Great the amount of signatures have just about doubled maybe more since I last checked this morning. Note, also have a look at   www.ts-si.org  for more information on the DSM-V revision

Cindy

[discarded]

No offense, but online petitions are generally laughed at when it comes to real events that do require some sort of public outcry to change.

Names and identities can easily be made up and 'signed' to an online petition, and tracking people down to verify identity is practically impossible, due to ISP tracking and the variants that entails. There's also the fact that numbers could be easily be skewered. I could, for example, use a proxy and sign the petition 100 times (with different information I nabbed from my phone book).

Online petitions are generally not admissible or even thought of as 'true' petitions in most cases.

If you really want to fight against this---write an actual letter, or call. THAT will make them notice.

[cindybc]

Hi  Discarded

Wing Walker and I have been discussing this subject about Zucker and Blanchard on and off most of the day and we both have come to agreeing that a letter would hold more weight than emails. Might be a good idea to pass this along to the same TS folks to whom we sent the email petition earlier.

Cindy

[Suzy]

So where could a letter be sent?

[NicholeW.]

American Psychiatric Association 
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825
Arlington, Va. 22209-3901

phone: 703-907-7300
email: apa@psych.org

[cindybc]

Hi Nichole, thank you so much for posting the appropriate address. Wing Walker and I are working on a petition letter to present the folks on this thread later today.

Cindy

Posted on: May 13, 2008, 07:20:58 PMHi all, I was wondering where this thread had gon to.

Wing Walker and I are still working on a petition letter to the APA for anyone here to use

Cindy