My comments on draft of APA trans task force report |
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In summer 2007, I learned that the American Psychological Association was preparing a task force report on trans and intersex issues. It came to my attention because a trans person on the task force resigned rather than lend credibility to their project, which was ideologically stacked with people associated with Toronto’s notorious Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (aka the Clarke Institute). I requested a draft in order to provide comments, some of which were incorporated in the APA report published today but many of which were ignored.
Among my requested changes that were ignored:
- Sam Winter’s published work on prevalence
- Anne Vitale’s published work on Gender Expression Deprivation Anxiety Disorder (GEDAD) and rethinking GID
- Femke Olyslager & Lynn Conway’s published prevalence data of 1 in 500 (obliquely referred to but not cited)
- Charles Moser and Peggy Kleinplatz’s criticism of disease models of “transvestic fetishism” and “paraphilia” (which they argue should be removed from the DSM)
- D. F. Morrow & L. Messinger’s published work on internalized transphobia
- Mildred Brown’s published work in True Selves and elsewhere
- Leiblum and Rosen’s published work rejecting the “homosexual transsexual"/"autogynephilic transsexual” taxonomy used by Zucker and his Toronto cronies
- Milton Diamond’s representative published criticism of the term “disorders of sex development”
Further reading:
- Full text of my requested revisions:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/notes/images/uploads/apa-taskforce-comment.pdf