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Book Announcement: Gender Madness in American Psychiatry, Essays from the Strugg

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Book Announcement: Gender Madness in American Psychiatry, Essays from the Struggle for Dignity
Filed by: Kelley Winters
January 26, 2009 11:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/book_announcement_gender_madness_in_amer.php

More than three decades after the American madcoverB400.jpgPsychiatric Association voted to remove the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, those who do not conform to their assigned birth-sex, either by inner identity or outer social expression, are labeled mentally ill in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Resulting stereotypes of psychiatric disorder and sexual deviance pose grave consequences to their human dignity and civil liberties. For transsexual individuals, the current diagnostic categories of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Tranvestic Fetishism also pose barriers to access to medical transition procedures. As the APA works toward its fifth revision of the DSM in 2012, these gender diagnoses provoke growing controversy while failing to explain the existence of countless well-adjusted transsexual, gender queer and gender transcendent people who have contributed to society for millennia.

Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essays from the Struggle for Dignity provides an overview of the literature and attitudes behind the current diagnostic nomenclature and a historical snapshot of the issues and challenges faced by gender transcendent people on the eve of publication of the Fifth Edition of the DSM. This book contains a collection of essays from the struggle for transgender dignity and health care access. They are expanded from pieces posted to the GID Reform Advocates web site in 2008 and incorporate the generous feedback and discussion from advocates and critics.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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