Gender Identity and Reform

[angersson]

Kenneth J. Zucker PhD has been selected as the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Chair for the DSM-V Work Group.

A number of folks in the trans community are worried about this as many are troubled by his methodology with children, and I think rightly so.  It's a gut feeling I get when I read this.

However, what is needed is good hard scientific

Comments

[mordantcarnival]

I read the NPR piece. Besides the fact that the reporter needs to be walloped on the nose with a rolled-up copy of the gender sensitivity guidelines, Bradley's story was absolutely horrible. To me this looks exactly like tying a left-handed kid's hand behind hir back so ze has to write right-handed: unecessary, cruel, and ultimately pointless as the orientation cannot be changed.

[kiarapixie]

Zucker kills, he might not pull the trigger himself, but countless times his kind of "therapy" leads to suicide. Also his anti-trans attitudes add to the general attitude of the US, which isn't exactly the most positive.

PS I love some of the things the spell check suggests for Zucker, very accurate and appropriate