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Beyond Denial: GID Diagnostic Criteria and Gender-Conversion Therapies

Started by Shana A, September 18, 2008, 10:21:46 PM

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Beyond Denial: GID Diagnostic Criteria and Gender-Conversion Therapies
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September 18, 2008 11:00 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/editors_note_kelley_winters_phd.php

Editors' note: Kelley Winters, Ph.D. is a writer on issues of kelley winters.jpgtransgender medical policy, founder of GID Reform Advocates and an Advisory Board Member for the Matthew Shepard Foundation and TransYouth Family Advocates. She has presented papers on the psychiatric classification of gender diversity at the annual conventions of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Counseling Association and the Association of Women in Psychology.

On May 9th and 23rd, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued statements on "GID and the DSM," repeating that,

    It is important to recognize that the DSM is a diagnostic manual and does not provide treatment recommendations or guidelines."

This was in response to concern from the transgender community and allies that the current "gender identity disorder" (GID) diagnosis is biased to facilitate gender-conversion therapies.
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