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Title: APA Backs Transgender Rights
Post by: Natasha on August 21, 2008, 11:47:03 PM
APA Backs Transgender Rights

http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ne&article_code=5933 (http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ne&article_code=5933)
William Henderson
8/21/2008

The American Psychological Association urged psychologists on Sunday to take a leading role in ending discrimination based on gender identity but stopped short of taking a position with respect to the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual due to be published in 2012.