Diagnosis vs. Treatment: Barriers to Medical Care
http://www.tsroadmap.com/notes/index.php/site/comments/diagnosis_vs_treatment_barriers_to_medical_care/#When:16:36:00ZKelly Winters
While the existence of a diagnostic coding has helped affirming,
supportive care providers to make hormonal and surgical transition
procedures available to some transitioning individuals, the specific
diagnostic criteria and supporting text of the current Gender Identity
Disorder category support the opposite approach – punitive
gender-conversion therapies intended to change or suppress gender
identity or expression which differ from assigned birth sex roles.
