Gender Identity Disorder requires serious study
http://ariablue.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/gender-identity-disorder-requires-serious-study/by Ariablue
9/18/09
The Jasper controversy continues at Susan's support forums as the people there come to grips with the reality of what transgender has become. It is increasingly difficult to justify the subordination of so many different individuals to the concept of transgender when people's needs and goals are so varied, and often at odds.
One group in particular that I feel is being done a grave disservice are the core transgender people for whom the word really came to have meaning. Leaving aside Arnold Lowman's/Virginia Prince's "transgenderist" for the moment, the person who is currently most typified by the transgender label is someone quite different from the fetishistic crossdresser that was the target audience of Transvestia.
