A guided reading of Ray Blanchard's open letter
http://transpassage.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/a-guided-reading-of-ray-blanchards-open-letter/As if by some malevolent magic, this email appeared in my inbox a week ago. The content of the letter is enough to make my blood boil (apparently, I'm more strongly in the "remove-GID-from-the-DSM-or-else" camp than I had previously thought), but the endorsement it received by none other than Jack Drescher took it to an entirely new level. For now, I'll just wade through the Blanchard letter itself. Promise I'll try not to take too many potshots. If you're confused by all the drama, go back and read about the DSM-V debacle first.
To set the mood, I'll open with this quote from Blanchard's "research", which is conspicuously absent from his letter: "What kind of defect in a male's capacity for sexual learning could produce ... ->-bleeped-<-, transvestitism ...?" (qtd. from Blanchard 1991)
