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Unrelated, but "gender identity disorder"? Is that a politically correct term or an homophobic one (or whatever you call it when it applies to transgender)? I

• jrapdx3 10y ago
  Gender Identity Disorder is not homosexuality, and it's now called Gender Dysphoria (GD) in the most recent diagnostic manuals. Homosexuality is not consider an illness, and does not require treatment, in fact no treatment is known. OTOH GD is the distress an individual has when biological status is inconsistent with internal experience of the "correct" gender. It's an uncommon condition occurring at a population rate of about 0.005%, affecting more males than females. Treatment of GD is available though complex. In most cases appropriate counseling is provided, and treatment possibly includes hormone and other medications, and reconstructive surgery.
  • lsiebert 10y ago
    American Psychiatrist Association changed being gay to not be a mental illness in 1973. And for people who have Gender Dysphoria, probably more accurate to say affecting more people assigned male at birth then people assigned female at birth.
• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  > Is it ok now to treat "feeling like you are in the wrong sex" as a disease that can be treated? I think the point is that it's your biological sex that's treated as "wrong" in this case, and treatment involves making it conform to how you feel.