DSM-V draft

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DSM-V draft
Questioning Transphobia
By Helen G
11 February, 2010


http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/dsm-v-draft/


So what was previously described as "a strong and persistent cross-gender identification" is now referred to as "a marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender".

Additionally:

    The term "sex" has been replaced by assigned "gender" in order to make the criteria applicable to individuals with a DSD (Meyer-Bahlburg, 2009a, 2009b). During the course of physical sex differentiation, some aspects of biological sex (e.g., 46,XY genes) may be incongruent with other aspects (e.g., the external genitalia); thus, using the term "sex" would be confusing. The change also makes it possible for individuals who have successfully transitioned to "lose" the diagnosis after satisfactory treatment. This resolves the problem that, in the DSM-IV-TR, there was a lack of an "exit clause," meaning that individuals once diagnosed with GID will always be considered to have the diagnosis, regardless of whether they have transitioned and are psychosocially adjusted in the identified gender role (Winters, 2008).