So, Kathryn spotted a link to this petition which is objecting to the DSM-V comittee’s members consisting of a individuals who pathologise gender identity disorder. I know quite a few TS people and while I’ve met some thorough nutcases, I also know some truly wonderful people who happen to also be TS. GID is something that the individuals appointed to the committee believe can be ‘cured’ with reparitive therapy; something they’ve tried on queer folk for quite some time with no real success.
Mostly, it seems to produce very screwed up people.
These members of the comittee have links to Narth (who advoctate reparitive therapy for homosexual and other queer individuals), the human biodiversity institute (a eugenics group who advocate for more research into the “racial IQ gap”), and to be honest scare the pants off me.
If they start to pathologise GID more…and gain credibility for their theories through inclusion in the DSM-V (rather than, say, finding any actual research to support their theories which didn’t rely on wildly skewing the subjects towards those who fit their theories) it leads towards worrying steps backward in the DSM, and a danger to everyone queer. .
