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Blinded Me with Science: Devolution of the DSM

Started by Natasha, August 21, 2008, 09:59:46 AM

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August 21, 2008, 09:59:46 AM
Blinded Me with Science: Devolution of the DSM

http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/blinded-me-with-science-devolution-of-the-dsm/
Kelly Winters
8/20/2008



At the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association,
Dr. Robert Spitzer, Chair of the DSM-III and DSM-IIIR Task Forces,
defended the categories of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and
paraphilias such as Transvestic Fetishism (TF) in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) [1]. He declared the
inherent pathology of gender identities that vary from assigned birth
sex,

"Children normally develop a sense of gender identity. It is not
taught—it just happens. I would argue that by itself, the failure to
develop a gender identity that is congruent with biological gender is
a dysfunction." [2, p.116]
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