Gatekeepers and the proverbial slippery slope
http://www.q-notes.com/2008/12/13/gatekeepers-and-the-proverbial-slippery-slope/Robbi Cohn
12/13/2008
This concludes a four-part series on the DSM, gatekeeper mentality, reparative therapy and other fallacious theories, such as ->-bleeped-<-. Conformity to a rigid and myopic world structure, viewed through the lens of patriarchy, found its zenith in the male dominated professional clinics that first set out to define and understand gender diversity. Johns Hopkins University was the first. The University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University and Northwestern University followed. While, in many cases, these doctors, therapists and clinicians assumed the guise of supportive caregivers, the real agenda was to establish and affirm what they considered to be socially acceptable and to set aside anything they felt fell outside the bounds of "normalcy" as deviant.
