Blinded Me With Science: The Burden of Proof

[Natasha]

Blinded Me With Science: The Burden of Proof

http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/blinded-me-with-science-the-burden-of-proof/
10/21/2008

In an interview with MSNBC this year, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, chairman of the current DSM-V Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group and a chief author of the current GID diagnosis, stated that there "has to be an empirical basis to modify anything" in the DSM." [2] But has the appropriate burden of proof been reversed here? Should his work group be equally committed to review the validity of the current diagnostic categories? And where is the basis, where is the science to substantiate the premise of 'disordered' gender identity that underlies them?