Petition the APA: Remove Transgender from the DSM-5

Becuse our Identities are Not Disordered

Change.org petition "Remove Transgender from the DSM-5"
http://www.change.org/petitions/remove-transgender-from-the-dsm-5

The DSM is regarded as the medical and social definition of mental disorder throughout North America and strongly influences international psychiatric nomenclature.

On January 10th, 2010, the American Psychiatric Association... [read more]

Becuse our Identities are Not Disordered

Change.org petition "Remove Transgender from the DSM-5"
http://www.change.org/petitions/remove-transgender-from-the-dsm-5

The DSM is regarded as the medical and social definition of mental disorder throughout North America and strongly influences international psychiatric nomenclature.

On January 10th, 2010, the American Psychiatric Association released proposed draft revisions for the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to be published May 2013.

Transgender people's civil rights advancement has been severely limited by our diagnosis in DSM because we are considered mentally ill by the American Psychiatric Association.

Although the propose changes for the DSM-5 has substituted "Incongruent" a less offensive word for "Dysphoria", the ramifications from this diagnosis still exists as illustrated recently by our exclusion from the DADT repeal.

Anti transgender organizations cornerstone evidence for our dehumanization is the DSM which links our identities with with autogynephilia and pedophilia.

Our diverse gender identities are a natural gift, not a psychiatric disorder.

Petition site:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/remove_transgender_from_the_dsm-5

What we propose as a Standard Of Care (SOC).
This is proposed SOC from Spain's trans advocacy group STP2012. If adapted insurers would have to cover all transitional issues without our being labeled mentally ill.
http://www.stp2012.info/guia/STP_guide_health.pdf

Register HERE with The APA to comment:
http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Registration.aspx

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Back Ground Information

APA's DSM-5 Development Page
http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

DSM-V 302.85 Proposed revisions
Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents or Adults
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=482#

DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power
Summary of the Critique of the DSM
http://www.zurinstitute.com/dsmcritique.html

GID Reform.org
http://www.gidreform.org/index.html

GID Reform WordPress
10 reasons why the transvestic fetishism diagnosis in the DSM-5 has got to go
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/ten-reasons-why-the-transvestic-fetishism-diagnosis-in-the-dsm-5-has-got-to-go/

GID Reform WordPress
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/comments-on-proposed-revisions-to-gender-diagnoses-in-the-dsm-5/

A.E.Brain, Australia
TS, IS, and the US Military
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/12/ts-is-and-us-military.html

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