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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moderate here and I mostly agree with the pip. I also agree that being transgender is a mental illness. 
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Do you also consider homosexuality and hysteria to be mental illnesses?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/28/the-w-h-o-says-being-transgender-is-a-mental-illness-but-thats-about-to-change/

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OK. Let's see what you think about transgenderism in 20 years. 
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From the article linked above: 
[i]The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the psychiatric disorder guidebook, [u]once included homosexuality as a mental illness[/u]. In 1973, the diagnosis became “sexual orientation disturbance,” and then [u]disappeared completely in 1987[/u], largely because of gay rights advocates.

[u]Hysteria[/u], an affliction often attributed to women, was in the DSM [u]until 1980[/u]. 
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And the APA only considers gender dysphoria as "a conflict between a person's physical or assigned gender and the gender with which he/she/they identify" and "Not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria and that distinction is important to keep in mind." So they only consider the mental conflict a "disorder" if someone is troubled by it. 
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/expert-q-and-a

[b]It's just a matter of time before the APA catches up with the rest of the world. [/b]
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/health/who-transgender-reclassified-not-mental-disorder/index.html

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So the APA should NOT acknowledge that a person's biological parts may be different from the gender that person identifies?  And we should all believe that nobody ever comes to identify as a different gender without conflict with the physiology of their body?  Isn't that the whole "trans" part of "transgender"?  "Trans" = change, across, through, changing thoroughly, beyond.  If what they want to be is different from what they physically are - that's a conflict.  And many people - not all - struggle with that in their minds as they come to accept it for themselves = "conflict"

I hope the APA retains it in whatever form in the DSM because that will allow people who do struggle with their self-identification, or with transitioning and dealing with those around them in the process, get the counseling they may need.  Not a diagnosis, health insurance isn't going to pay for it.[/quote]

AMA can create a new diagnosis code for it.

APA can continue to support anxiety and depression.

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