Is the APA Playing Politics With Sexual Disorder Definition?
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/education/2975-is-the-apa-playing-politics-with-sexual-disorder-definitionDave Bohon
2/18/10
According to a report on Focus on the Family's
CitizenLink.com website, significant among the proposed changes to the fifth edition of the DSM is the re-labeling of Gender Identity Disorder (GID), also known as transsexualism, to "Gender Incongruity." A diagnosis dictionary on the
psychologytoday.com website explains that GID occurs "when a person feels as if their biological gender doesn't accord with who they feel themselves to be," and is defined by "strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one's own assigned sex."
The present DSM defines Gender Identity Disorder as a "strong and persistent cross-gender identification," while the proposed change would remove the term "disorder" and define it as a "marked incongruence between one's experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender."
