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- Up one level
- From Mental Disorder to Iatrogenic Hypogonadism: Dilemmas in Conceptualizing Gender Identity Variants as Psychiatric Conditions
Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Archives of Sexual Behavior, April 2010, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp 461-476 Abstract The categorization of gender identity variants (GIVs) as “mental disorders” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is highly controversial among professionals as well as among persons with GIV. After providing a brief history of GIV categorizations in the DSM, this paper presents some of the major issues of the ongoing debate: GIV as psychopathology versus natural variation; definition of “impairment” and “distress” for GID; associated psychopathology and its relation to stigma; the stigma impact of the mental-disorder label itself; the unusual character of “sex reassignment surgery” as a psychiatric treatment; and the consequences for health and mental-health services if the disorder label is removed. Finally, several categorization options are examined: Retaining the GID category, but possibly modifying its grouping with other syndromes; narrowing the definition to dysphoria and taking “disorder” out of the label; categorizing GID as a neurological or medical rather than a psychiatric disorder; removing GID from both the DSM and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD); and creating a special category for GIV in the DSM. I conclude that—as also evident in other DSM categories—the decision on the categorization of GIVs cannot be achieved on a purely scientific basis, and that a consensus for a pragmatic compromise needs to be arrived at that accommodates both scientific considerations and the service needs of persons with GIVs.
- Healthy Relationships & IPV Programs
This curriculum began as a two-hour workshop developed and led by the Director of UNC-Chapel Hill's LGBTQ Center, Dr. Terri Phoenix. As the program developed, additional content was added and Carolina students were recruited and trained to facilitate a three-session workshop for Carolina students interested in learning how to create and sustain healthy relationships. This workshop content was then adapted into online modules to allow participants access to the information at a convenient time and location at any point during the year.
- Meet The Doctor Social Conservatives Depend On To Justify Anti-Transgender Hate
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress, June 10, 2015 McHugh specifically states that “no evidence supports the claim that people such as Bruce Jenner [sic] have a biological source for their transgender assumptions. Plenty of evidence demonstrates that with him [sic] and most others, transgendering is a psychological rather than a biological matter.” To make this claim, McHugh must ignore at least fifteen studies that have found exactly that kind of evidence showing a biological origin for transgender identities.
- NY Times - John William Money, 84, Sexual Identity Researcher, Dies
Benedict Carey, NY Times, July 11, 2006
- Paul McHugh - Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution
Commentary Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles. By Paul McHugh, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2016 Editors’ note: This op-ed was originally published on June 12, 2014. The transgendered suffer a disorder of "assumption" like those in other disorders familiar to psychiatrists. With the transgendered, the disordered assumption is that the individual differs from what seems given in nature—namely one's maleness or femaleness. Other kinds of disordered assumptions are held by those who suffer from anorexia and bulimia nervosa, where the assumption that departs from physical reality is the belief by the dangerously thin that they are overweight.