Transvestic Disorder: The Overlooked Anti-Trans Diagnosis

[Shana A]

Transvestic Disorder: The Overlooked Anti-Trans Diagnosis

Filed By Kelley Winters | May 28, 2011 10:00 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/05/transvestic_disorder_the_overlooked_anti-trans_dia_1.php?utm_source=front_page&utm_medium=top_story&utm_campaign=Top_Story

On May 5, the American Psychiatric Association released a second round of proposed diagnostic criteria for the 5th Edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). These include two categories that impact the trans community: Gender Dysphoria (formerly Gender Identity Disorder) and Transvestic Disorder (formerly Transvestic Fetishism).

While GID has received a great deal of attention in the press and from GLBTQ advocates, the second transvestic category is too often overlooked. This is unfortunate, because a diagnosis of Transvestic Disorder is designed to punish social and sexual gender nonconformity and to enforce binary stereotypes of assigned birth sex. It plays no role in enabling access to medical transition care for those who need it, and it is frequently cited when care is denied.

[MillieB]

I don't understand?

Why would a ->-bleeped-<- person seek medical intervention? What for?

[pixiegirl]

Read the definitions and figure it out, maybe? It's not that hard to see the bad places this could go if left as is.

[Lisbeth]

I don't understand?

Why would a ->-bleeped-<- person seek medical intervention? What for?

It's not about ->-bleeped-<-s. It's the doctor being able to say, "You are aroused by crossdressing, so you are denied hormones or surgery."

[tekla]

Why would a ->-bleeped-<- person seek medical intervention mental health services?^*  What for?

Because: a) its possible for it to cause high levels of guilt, and b) anything taken to extremes could be considered high-risk behavior.

Either way = billable hours = KA CHING = retirement home on the Maui coast.




* - It's really not medicine at all.

[MillieB]

Okay I've read it (that's twenty minutes that I'm never getting back!)

My biggest concern is that they have got a completely discredited, morally bankrupt loon like Blanchard to write it. And the fact that he is going on about autogynephillia as if it was never discredited in the first place. (it also doesn't really apply to transgender or gender variant people, it was a study of transsexual people)

What on earth does it take for someone to get thrown out on their ear by these people.

I don't think that any paraphillia should be treated as a medical disorder unless it leads to harm being caused to others, it's just a kink and we all have them, and that's why I still can't understand why someone who doesn't need to transition would want to involve the medical community, we have little option but if I could I would avoid them altogether.

It's funny that it is advertised as a way of depsychopathologising kinks and sexual preferences but does the opposite.

This as usual will be used as a tool to hurt transsexual people.