Open letter to the President of the APA re Falsification of GID prevalence results by the APA Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Prevalence/APA/APA%20Letter%209-05-08.html9/5/2008
Dear Dr. Kazdin:
The APA's recent "Report of the Task Force on Gender Identity and
Gender Variance" was released with considerable public fanfare and
claims that the "APA resolves to play (a) leading role in improving
treatment for gender-variant people."
That report has already come under fire for perpetuating "gender
identity disorder (GID)" as a stigmatizing label for gender-variant
people, and for failing to distance the APA from psychiatric labeling
of transitioners as mentally-ill. The APA is also criticized for
including trans-reparatist therapist Ken Zucker on the Task Force,
lending credibility to his inhumane clinical methods. As you may know,
an international petition gained over 9,500 signatures protesting
Zucker's role in overseeing revisions of the section on "sexual and
gender identity disorders" in the DSM-V.
EDIT: provided full title of letter, correct URL. =K
