Finally A Campaign To Depathologize Transsexuals

[Shana A]

 Finally A Campaign To Depathologize Transsexuals
Oct 4th, 2009 | By randa

http://www.bekhsoos.com/web/2009/10/finally-a-campaign-to-depathologize-transsexuals/

Modern medicine is influenced by the normative system of a binary patriarchal society where only two poles can exist: the man and the woman. Indeed, it classifies transsexualism as being a mental disorder and defines it as a gender dysphasia. This exact definition was and still is bringing harm for transsexuals. Thus, they find themselves discriminated, pathologized, and dealt with as mentally ill persons that are unable to decide what is good for them. That leaves them to the hand of psychiatry that should determine their future in the society. It is that very same society that mistreats them and condemns them to a visceral marginalization and a primitive transphobia. In fact, suicidal rates among transsexuals are three times higher the rates in other social branches.