New Edition of 'Manual of Disorders' Inspires Gender Identity Controversy

[Natasha]

New Edition of 'Manual of Disorders' Inspires Gender Identity Controversy

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=84877
Kilian Melloy
12/18/2008

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is the go-to book on psychiatric problems. It's an indispensable resource for the mental health profession, and, for patients, insurance carriers, and the pharmaceuticals industry, the tome--popularly referred to as the DSM, now slated for a fifth edition, to be published several years from now--has a huge impact on who receives what sort of care, and who pays for it.

[Randy]

Gotta love that argument that listing ->-bleeped-<- as a mental disorder helps with insurance coverage.... exactly which mysterious insurance plan is always being alluded to?