{"id":1744,"date":"2012-12-05T01:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2012-12-05T01:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:38:51","slug":"american-psychiatric-association-to-stop-classifying-transgender-people-as-having-a-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/12\/american-psychiatric-association-to-stop-classifying-transgender-people-as-having-a-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"American Psychiatric Association to stop classifying transgender people as having a mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders mirrors similar moves to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in the USA in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Until now \u201cgender identity disorder\u201d was used to label people who are trans and this has been used as a basis for anti-equality campaigners to argue against the rights of trans people.<\/p>\n<p>The new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will label trans people as having \u201cGender Dysphoria,\u201d a term to communicate the distress caused by \u201ca marked incongruence between one\u2019s experienced\/expressed gender and assigned gender.\u201d The aim is so that treatment can be offered without stigmatising trans people as having a mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Temple University psychology professor Frank Farley told CBS News that even though the change is an improvement; it\u2019s not complete. \u201cSignificant decisions are made about people in the courts, in the mental health system, with insurers so we want it to be absolutely impeccable and so some of these aspects are not particularly solid science,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/12\/04\/american-psychiatric-association-to-longer-classify-transgender-people-as-having-a-mental-illness\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/12\/transymbol.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1745\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/12\/transymbol.jpg?resize=250%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders mirrors similar moves to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}