Transgender is no longer a mental illness!

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According to the DSM V, Being Transgender is no longer a mental illness!
http://dot429.com/articles/1119
Yay!
Diana

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Consequences...

Overall will they be good or bad? Many governments support transition by financial and other means. Will this still be the case if there is no disorder to remedy?

Disorder, not condition.

Keep in mind that there are mental disorders - such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - which are considered to require treatment to ameleorate the affects. _Conditions_ on the other hand, require adjustments, but they aren't considered to be aberrations of the human mind.

What I'm thinking is that they've decided that you're not mentally ill if you're transgendered. Instead, you simply have a problem to be addressed.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

From The Advocate:

Andrea Lena's picture

Based on the standards to be set by the DSM-V, individuals will be diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria for displaying “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender." So the likelihood is that it will continue to be treated but without the stigma associated with mental illness. Just being me is tough enough without being labeled just for being me, if that makes sense.

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Society isn't usually happy

unless it can stick a label on something. If something doesn't fit into one of the safe, understood, time-honoured boxes, it must be odd, and that makes society uncomfortable. There have been so many instances in all walks of life where 'different' equals 'abnormal' and should be removed so as not to make everyone else feel uncomfortable.

Statistically we are but a minuscule section of the populace but, as always, the smaller the group, the easier it is to destroy it, beat it into submission or use it as an object of fun.

You are right, 'Drea; hard enough being born with something you never wanted and cannot always fix.

This looks to me like progress; small and late but you have to start somewhere. Now to convince the 'head in sand' brigade; that'll be tough.

S.

It's an improvement

Angharad's picture

I don't know if it will ever be acceptable to 'the man on the Clapham omnibus' but at least we can say we're not one stop short of Dagenham.

I also like the bit where we can actually be seen as 'cured' or asymptomatic except for the hypogonadism. So being cured - does that make me an old ham?

Angharad

Angharad

Trangenderism was never a mental illness

Regardless of what some prominent scientists once said. Fear was the true mental illness on display. Just some people who doesn't comprehend the unknown.

Besides, it's not like I hated being transgendered. I never treated it like one. It's people who say I should hate and restrain my being transgendered that made it an illness. It's another battle against culture shock that I think is slowly working its way to our favor.

I was quite ill and disturbed.

However, in recent years I have felt that the utterly tragic rejection was what made me and others profoundly depressed. The Doctor felt like the other issues of childhood abuse and all that made me sufficiently ill. It will be interesting to see how this new diagnostic criteria will affect treatment.

Much peace

Gwendolyn