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Title: Balancing Views on Gender Diversity in the DSM-V Process
Post by: Natasha on October 03, 2008, 05:46:39 AM
Post by: Natasha on October 03, 2008, 05:46:39 AM
Balancing Views on Gender Diversity in the DSM-V Process
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/balancing_views_on_gender_diversity_in_t.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/balancing_views_on_gender_diversity_in_t.php)
10/02/2008
The current diagnostic categories of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Transvestic Fetishism (TF) have long raised concern within the transgender community. Those who are distressed by their physical sex characteristics or ascribed social gender roles often need access to medically necessary transition care, and these procedures require diagnostic coding that is congruent with the treatment. At the same time, this nomenclature should respect the gender identity and expression of gender variant children, adolescents and adults and not impose stigma of mental illness or sexual deviance on femininity, masculinity or gender variance in themselves.
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/balancing_views_on_gender_diversity_in_t.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/balancing_views_on_gender_diversity_in_t.php)
10/02/2008
The current diagnostic categories of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Transvestic Fetishism (TF) have long raised concern within the transgender community. Those who are distressed by their physical sex characteristics or ascribed social gender roles often need access to medically necessary transition care, and these procedures require diagnostic coding that is congruent with the treatment. At the same time, this nomenclature should respect the gender identity and expression of gender variant children, adolescents and adults and not impose stigma of mental illness or sexual deviance on femininity, masculinity or gender variance in themselves.