Sunday, October 17, 2010
Ten Reasons Why the Transvestic Disorder Diagnosis in the DSM-5 Has Got to Go |
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The 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is shaping up to be a disaster for all trans people, but the diagnosis poised to cause the most harm is getting the least coverage and protest, probably because those diagnosed under it are the least political of all forms of cross-gender expression.
Kelly Winters notes:
While the diagnostic category of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) has garnered most of the controversy, a second category of so-called Transvestic Fetishism (TF) has harmed transwomen, including transsexual women, as well as male-to-female crossdressers, dual gender and gender nonconforming people since the earliest days of the DSM. Trans and LGB advocates have been inexplicably quiet about the TF category, even after the APA proposed to expand the category in the DSM-5, renamed Transvestic Disorder, to implicate gender nonconforming people of all sexes and all sexual orientations.
The proposed DSM-5 diagnosis of Transvestic Disorder, even worse than its predecessor Transvestic Fetishism, labels gender expression not stereotypically associated with assigned birth sex as inherently pathological and sexually deviant. The diagnosis is punitive and scientifically capricious, serving to punish social and sexual gender nonconformity and enforce binary stereotypes of assigned birth sex. Here are ten reasons why the Transvestic Disorder diagnosis should be eliminated entirely from the DSM-5.
Ten Reasons Why the Transvestic Disorder Diagnosis in the DSM-5 Has Got to Go
http://www.gidreform.org/blog2010Oct15.html
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