My comment on the DSM-V proposals
Posted by Andrea James on 04/20 at 04:21 AM
http://www.tsroadmap.com/notes/index.php/site/comments/my_comment_on_the_dsm_v_proposals/Below is what I submitted to the American Psychiatric Association regarding the highly problematic proposed revisions for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). Comments are due April 20.
I'm grateful to those diplomatically working on damage control regarding this ill-fated DSM-V revision. Its negative effects will harm sex and gender minorities well into the 2020s. It will particularly harm an entire generation of transgender youth and intersex people.
My comments below are not diplomatic. I am noting for the record that those responsible missed their historic opportunity. They rejected the depathologization of sex and gender minorities in 2013. The DSM-V is on track to be remembered for how the responsible parties reinforced and even expanded the pathologization of sex and gender minorities, rather than taking the courageous and historically inevitable step of depathologization.
