More problems with trans healthcare
http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/more-problems-with-trans-healthcare-28679.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/more-problems-with-trans-healthcare-28679.html)
Amy Hunter provides an update to her article Sex Reassignment Surgery: When Things Go Wrong in last month's issue of The Scavenger and reflects on issues with trans healthcare.
A few weeks ago, I filed an article, both here at The Scavenger and on American blog, The Bilerico Project. Sex Reassignment Surgery: When Things Go Wrong, received great commentary on and off-site from Scavenger and Bilerico readers.
The comments have continued to come in: a trans support group in Brisbane, Australia wrote my editor for permission to re-print the article. I have received phone calls, personal letters and e-mails from advocates, other women experiencing difficulties, and organizations that have a stake in the trans healthcare debate.
I am grateful for the well wishes sent by readers, but what heartens me most is the enhanced dialogue about trans healthcare that has transpired since the piece first posted.
I feel that this statement is problematic:
QuoteIt is time to rid medical texts and psychology curricula of teaching abnormal psychology about trans people. A naturally occurring segment of the population should no longer stand for pathology as a descriptor.
Lots of illnesses and diseases are "naturally occurring," but they should still be pathologized because they are in fact pathological. I think she means that it is time to stop pathologizing transsexuality as a mental illness or a mental disorder?