WPATH Statement on Gender Identity Disorder
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
May 27, 2010 10:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/wpath_statement_on_gender_identity_disorder.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/wpath_statement_on_gender_identity_disorder.php)
There's been a lot of controversy in the trans community over whether "Gender Identity Disorder" should be removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, and from the World Health Organization's psychiatric manuals as well.
I've been unsure about the best response to this issue. On the one hand, I do not feel that being transsexual or transgender is a "mental disorder." I feel that the main problem for trans people is the social response to their gender, not that there is some internal conflict. This isn't a disease, a pathology. Just like homosexuality isn't a disease and they took that one off the books in 1972.
Post Merge: May 27, 2010, 05:02:34 PM
More from Monica Roberts: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/wpath-response-to-dsm-v-revisions.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/wpath-response-to-dsm-v-revisions.html)