Hope and Hurt for Trans Americans in the APA's Proposed DSM Revisions

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Hope and Hurt for Trans Americans in the APA's Proposed DSM Revisions
posted by: Steve Williams 21 hours ago

http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/progress-and-problems-with-the-american-psyciatric-associations-changes-to-the-dsm-for-trans-people/

On Monday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force praised the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) favoring of "gender incongruence" and refutation of "gender identity disorder" (GID) as part of its suggested revisions to the upcoming 5th edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM), a text that is used by clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric illnesses. However, the Task Force notes that there is much work to be done on the problematic diagnostic criteria that still mislabels many trans and gender variant people as having a mental disorder.