Friday, November 20, 2009
In honor of the 2009 Transgender Day of Remembrance, Dr. Sam Winter has just issued a strong appeal for the removal of gender identity variance from the psychiatric diagnostic manuals.
Time is pressing on in the psychopathologisation debate. The WHO and APA proceed in revising ICD and DSM respectively, the increasingly international STP-2012 (Stop Transpathologisation) Campaign gathers force, more and more research articles detail the links in the chain leading from psychopathologisation to illness and death, books on the subject (most recently Kelley Winters’ painstakingly careful analysis) get published..
The issue of psychopathologisation is of course a health issue, in that it is all about the view we take of transpeople’s mental health. But it is a health issue on many more grounds too. The psychopathologisation of GIV and GV engenders stigma, cultivates and/or supports prejudice and discrimination, contributes to social and economic marginalisation and poverty worldwide for transpeople, and is ultimately a health issue, raising the risk of poor mental health and well-being (and self-damaging and suicidal behaviours), social isolation, risk behaviours (including sexual), involvement in prostitution (often through lack of other employment possibilities), and HIV/AIDS risk.
Full article:
http://web.hku.hk/~sjwinter/TransgenderASIA/call-for-depsychopathologisation.htm
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Ira Basil Pauly (born 1931) is an American psychiatrist best known for his influential work on transsexualism with endocrinologist Harry Benjamin.
Pauly stands as a sort of opposite of Paul McHugh, both of whom were faculty at University of Oregon Medical School in the 1960’s, when Pauly began writing and speaking about treatment of transsexualism. He came around on sex reassignment in 1961 “after soul-searching deliberation.” Pauly noted that both transsexualism and abortion were “sex and tabooed topics” that caused strong responses. Pauly is noted for undertaking the first global review of the published outcome data on transsexualism in 1965. In the mid-1960s, he began collaborating with Benjamin, who cited Pauly’s work in The Transsexual Phenomenon. The two later worked to popularize their research in the lay press.
McHugh would become dean of the University of Oregon Medical School before leaving to close down gender services at Johns Hopkins. McHugh has continued to try to control what other people do to their bodies ever since, where Pauly (who retired in 1994) will be remembered as one of the progressive pioneers in providing trans health services.
Full article:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ira-pauly.html
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Pioneering trans author and artist Melanie Anne Phillips has released some of her groundbreaking work in new formats:
Melanie Anne Phillips on Amazon
Raised by Wolves paperback
Website:
http://melanieannephillips.com
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Malgorzata Anna Lamacz (born 1949) is an American researcher specializing in sexuality and behavioral genetics. Under the Americanized version of her name (Margaret Lamacz), she is the co-author of the 1989 book Vandalized Lovemaps: Paraphilic Outcome of 7 Cases in Pediatric Sexology with notorious sexologist John Money.
She and Money proposed the term gynemimetophilia as part of a paraphilic model of attraction to transwomen.
Lamacz has since gone on to work on evidence of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. This work has been done with Paul McHugh, who shut down the gender clinic at Johns Hopkins.
Full article:
Malgorzata Lamacz and transsexualism
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/malgorzata-lamacz.html
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Transgender Rights Project of GLAD notes:
GLAD is collecting stories about people’s experiences with health insurance coverage related to gender transition, to help us determine how we can best address legal concerns in this area.
If you have a story to share, please complete our brief survey at:
http://www.glad.org/health
Please note: because GLAD’s work is focused in New England, we are specifically interested in stories from people in the six New England states. If you know of others who may have a story to share, please feel free to forward this post.
All information will be kept confidential. Thank you!
Further reading
Transsexual transition and insurance
http://www.tsroadmap.com/reality/insurance.html
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