Blinded Me With Science: Sampling Error |
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Kelley Winters, Ph.D. of GID Reform Advocates notes:
The cornerstone of empirical science is elimination of bias by sampling data that is representative of the population under study. However, the APA relied on data from unrepresentative clinical populations to conclude that all gender variant people, whose gender identity or expression vary from their assigned birth sex roles, are mentally ill in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders rev. IV-TR. In fact, the current diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder allows no possibility for the existence of countless well-adjusted transsexual and gender variant people already in society. The Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group has an opportunity to replace stereotype with science in the DSM-V, to base diagnostic nomenclature on sound data that is representative of real gender variant people from non-clinical populations.
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/blinded-me-with-science-sampling-error/
