Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A First Look At The DSM V Proposals

http://crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-look-at-dsm-v-proposals.html

The American Psychiatric Association has released the proposals for the DSM V revisions for review and comment today.

There has been considerable concern voiced within the transgender community around both who has been involved in the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders working groups and some of the pet theories that some of those people may have tried to insert into the DSM V.

I'm very pleased to note that those fears seem to have been allayed in the committee process. Nowhere in there did I find the language of ' ->-bleeped-<-', and in the revisions proposed for Gender Identity Disorder - in fact in this paper by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, it seems fairly clear why the language of  ->-bleeped-<- wasn't adopted.