About that Massive DSM-V Protest
by: eastsidekate
Thu May 21, 2009 at 08:34:35 AM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11085/about-that-massive-dsmv-protest (http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/11085/about-that-massive-dsmv-protest)
(I've talked to a few folks who attended the protest, and more them one of them commented on how few LGB people were either at, or involved in the preparation for the protest (Cindi Creager as the protest Media Contact was one non-trans key player, for example). So, what eastsidekate guessed was true about the protest actually was true. And, she's correct about the lack of media coverage of the protest as well -- I've been looking to find what media coverage, and I've only found less than a half-a-dozen mainstream media outlets that covered the event, and very little coverage of the protest by bloggers who aren't trans. - promoted by Autumn Sandeen)
*ahem*.....little help?
For those of you keeping score at home, roughly 150 people gathered outside the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in San Francisco to protest the continuing inclusion of transgender people in the "Bible" of mental illness. 150. Word of the protests was all over the web in past weeks. Ten speakers made the case that the APA should stop pathologizing trans people.
Well it is a double-edged sword for those who can get it covered with a diagnosis. I'm not proud, can't afford surgery and wanted it paid for. If there's some compensatory system proposed so that people can still get it covered, then get it out of the DSM for sure.
Dennis