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sistercarrionSomething that if you know anything about me, you'll know I feel strongly about. This is happening in the USA, but the wider implications scare me. As seen via various sources, and this excellent post from becky_h:
"This.
Long story made very short:
The APA (American Psychiatric Association)has announced it's intention to revise the DSMV (Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The expert they've named to chair revisions on sexuality and gender is Kenneth Zucker. Zucker is the major remaining proponent of Reparative Therapy for LGBT folks.
Zucker has named Ray Blanchard to work with the group that will re-write the section on Gender Identity Disorder. Blanchard is connected with 'ex-gay' organizations, and believes that all transpeople are really sex offenders.
Now, I know that's a whole lot of links in very little space. So, short-story made a bit longer: Zucker's stated purpose of reparative therapy is that without it gay kids will grow up to be transexual. So, any version of Gender Identity Disorder the two of them are likely to write together will not only make it hard for transexuals to get medical help, but will redefine GID from an independent diagnosis to a kind of homosexuality.
And homosexuality is back in the DSMV.
This is me, composing my own links and researching information, best I can, from a locked post in another community. Feel free to steal this in all, or in part, to repost. I have no idea what the hell anyone's going to do about it, but maybe someone with some contact with appropriate people can either take action, apply pressure, or let us know what the fuck's going on. Anyway, there you go."
becky_h:"This.
Long story made very short:
The APA (American Psychiatric Association)has announced it's intention to revise the DSMV (Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The expert they've named to chair revisions on sexuality and gender is Kenneth Zucker. Zucker is the major remaining proponent of Reparative Therapy for LGBT folks.
Zucker has named Ray Blanchard to work with the group that will re-write the section on Gender Identity Disorder. Blanchard is connected with 'ex-gay' organizations, and believes that all transpeople are really sex offenders.
Now, I know that's a whole lot of links in very little space. So, short-story made a bit longer: Zucker's stated purpose of reparative therapy is that without it gay kids will grow up to be transexual. So, any version of Gender Identity Disorder the two of them are likely to write together will not only make it hard for transexuals to get medical help, but will redefine GID from an independent diagnosis to a kind of homosexuality.
And homosexuality is back in the DSMV.
This is me, composing my own links and researching information, best I can, from a locked post in another community. Feel free to steal this in all, or in part, to repost. I have no idea what the hell anyone's going to do about it, but maybe someone with some contact with appropriate people can either take action, apply pressure, or let us know what the fuck's going on. Anyway, there you go."
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Date: 2008-05-17 06:29 pm (UTC)Zucker is chairing the committee, and we know about Blanchard. (You can find the list of other members here). Binik, Graham and Meyer-Bahlburg are all on the editorial board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which is the Official Publication of the International Academy of Sex Research. It's editor is Kenneth Zucker.
The rest are still fairly unknown. But! I'm digging and this article Is fairly... reassuring. Sort of.
Info-dump, what? (Yes, that's all in my post but my post is locked and we don't necessarily share friendslists. I'm sorry if this is hugely annoying.)
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Date: 2008-05-18 11:16 pm (UTC)Still twitching a bit, skin-crawling sort of thing. People like Zucker and Blanchard make me *very* uncomfortable.
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Date: 2008-05-21 08:34 pm (UTC)