LGBTQ* News You May Have Missed
Changing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM) Trans*/Gender Terms
Following text from Advocate Magazine Online
The newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, will replace the diagnostic term “Gender Identity Disorder” with the term “Gender Dysphoria,” according to the Associated Press.
-Thanks Cael, PoetCael73 & blogger of Exploring Gender, for bringing this to my(our) attention!
the psych major in me is very pleased.
Progress in small steps. Just as...article points out that elements
Its something really hard to classify, but I think there doing there best.
How about medical coverage, tho?
Is this the one where they have PMS as a true disorder now?
Okay this is going to be off-the-cuff and probably not the most coherent. But. I’m frustrated with the GID/DSM/mental...
I’m SO excited for DSM V, because I absolutely love that they’re changing Schizophrenia into a spectrum like Autism; I...
So pleased this was corrected for the new edition. Madre already knows what I want as my graduation present