Disordered Identities: The Focus of Pathology |
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Kelley Winters, Ph.D. notes:
In the DSM-V, there is opportunity for the American Psychiatric Association to realign with contemporary attitudes about gender diversity among its peer organizations, to refocus the GID diagnostic criteria on distress with physical sex characteristics or distress with assigned birth role or ascribed social role that are incongruent with inner gender identity. There is an opportunity for the APA to clarify in the supporting text and in public policy statement that, in the absence of dysphoria, gender identity and expression that vary from assigned birth sex are not, in themselves, mental disorder.
I believe this is the major issue we face politically in the next several years. I will be covering this extensively over the next year or so.
Dr. Winters’ full blog post:
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/disordered-identities-the-focus-of-pathology/
