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Sign Petition To Have Crossdressing Removed From DSM
Got this email today from another member of a transgroup of which I'm a member:
Please sign this petition to oppose the inclusion of "transvestic fetishism/disorder" in the new version of The Diagnostical and Statistical Manual (DSM) version V set for release in 2013. The old-guard transphobic bigots and pseudo-scientists have colonized and controlled our lives for long enough. It is time to speak out and stop their horrendous actions to pathologize our lives. Sign the petition below and spread the words to all trans, genderqueer, cross-dressing and allied communities. clicky here to sign the petition Here's the reasons crossdressing should be eliminated as listed on the petition for anyone too hesitant to click the link: 1. Crossdressing involves no inherent harm to the individual engaging in it, to other people, or to society. Its presence in a psychiatric manual (whether for reasons of diagnosis or for research) is anachronistic, trivializes the DSM, and diminishes the psychiatric profession; 2. By the 1980s, laws against crossdressing were abolished virtually everywhere in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe with almost no controversy as they were recognized to be anachronisms, unworthy of attention by law enforcement officials. The psychiatric diagnosis, however, remained in place; 3. In many other countries around the world, crossdressing is still a criminal offense, and the continued presence of this diagnosis in the DSM promotes the oppression of gender diverse persons by local authorities; 4. The mere grouping of crossdressing alongside criminal behaviors that can cause grave harm to non-consenting persons needlessly stigmatizes people who engage in harmless gender-diverse behavior; 5. The application of this diagnosis only to male persons is obvious evidence of sexism; 6. The arbitrariness of this diagnosis is compounded by its proposed extension to cover gay and bisexual men who were explicitly exempted in the past, and by the questionable reasoning given to justify the change; 7. The proposed "Transvestic Disorder" diagnosis would no longer be limited to crossdressers. It also now targets many transsexual women with the new specifier of "autogynephilia," a pejorative label implying that transsexual women transition for reasons other than harmony with their gender identity. This mischaracterization of transsexual women is already being exploited by political extremists to undermine their civil rights and human dignity. 8. The psychiatrist and former chairman of the DSM-4 Task Force, Allen Frances, M.D., recently wrote in the Psychiatric Times, "As psychiatrists, we have our hands full taking care of the suffering and distress caused by real mental disorders. There is no need for us to expand our purview to cover sexual thoughts and behaviors that are private and harmless." 9. In February 2010, the Norwegian Directorate of Health, following the earlier lead of Denmark (1995) and Sweden (2009), invalidated the diagnostic code for "Fetishistic Transvestism" in the standard Norwegian psychiatric manual. The Directorate of Health observed, "There have been no changes in these diagnoses for over 100 years... At best these diagnoses are completely superfluous. At worst they are stigmatizing minority groups in society." The End, Dylan |
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03-17-2010, 06:32 PM | #2 |
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Dylan posted an online petition. I clicked and signed immediately. |
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I am so concerned about what does get revised in the DSM.... for the TG community and all of us. It has a hell of a lot of power that is very much mis-used. |
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signed and posted on my family FB...who are supportive of trans people. They will pass it along as well...
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