The APA and WHO No Longer Classifies Transgenderism as as Mental Illness or Disorder. Should The Decision Be Reversed?

[Physics-Man]

• https://nicic.gov/being-transgender-no-longer-mental-disorder-apa-2012
• https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48448804.amp
• https://www.webmd.com/sex/news/20190529/being-transgender-not-a-mental-disorder-who-says
• https://time.com/5596845/world-health-organization-transgender-identity/?amp=true
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleefowlkes/2019/05/30/who-being-transgender-no-longer-considered-a-mental-illness/?sh=492f491a1c3b
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/
• https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd

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I intended to place this under 'Society & Politics', but was automatically replaced under the 'Sexuality' category.

[Derekk]

If politics and ideology has corrupted the DSM by removing trans identities from the list, what happened when LGB identities and behaviours were removed? Did the politics of the day corrupt us back then? Are gay men still mentally ill? What about female hysteria?

The notion that politics is responsible for breaking down old knowledge of mental conditions while assuming that those older models were framed apolitically is ridiculous. Either politics and the DSM are and always have been entwined, or the DSM is and always has been making an earnest attempt at capturing the Hippocratic ethos to "do no harm". One or the other folks.

[lightbulb27]

Isn't the definition of "disorder"... like... not being in order? A person whose body is not aligned with their mind, strikes me as having a "disorder".

There may be various approaches to creating order for them.

I wonder why they haven't devised a body replacement therapy. e. g. remove the head of one person and switch with another body. Just have to figure out how to connect the spines properly, seems dooable and strikes me as much simpler to create consistentcy as well.

[AsaKyo]

Then what the hell else could it possibly be?

[Subarugirl]

Being gay was considered a mental illness at one point too...

[Walrus_au]

Part of the spectrum of the human condition. let people live their own damn lives without all the hatred.

[Joker_]

it's a way to make bank

[DarkWinterNights]

@Subarugirl, Being gay doesn’t involve being permanently medicated and surgery.

[Subarugirl]

@DarkWinterNights and being trans doesn't have to mean that either, but if a person decided to make that choice, like any other elective surgery, why is that such an issue for you? It doesn't impact you at all?

[Joker_]

@Subarugirl weird that you introduced a direct comparison between trans and gay people when they're completely different things. I suspect you have a senile obsession with identity

(senile because you are old)

[Subarugirl]

@Joker_ yes they are completely different but there are enough political and social similarities in stigma it’s very relevant

[OlderAndWiser]

When politics intersects with medicine and psychology, politics always wins.

[Walrus_au]

I dissagree, not because I do not think that happens, but because I think it shouldn't be.
The facts of reality, that is what should win out. And lately it has been actively chosen against by politics.

[MCheetah]

They've just been compromised, is all. Gender dysphoria literally serves no purpose for humanity. That makes it a mutation or mental defect, thus, a mental illness. Not to say SOME of them don't deserve sympathy (the few who are respectful, that is), but it's not "normal" in any way.

[OpenClose]

Depends on what they mean. Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. Changing gender is one potential treatment.

Everyone lost it at "Gender dysphoria is a mental illness" saying "it's treating it like something fake." No. Treating it like something fake would be classifying it as "hysteria" and prescribing anti-psychotics. Treating it as something real is giving it its own title and having better-targeted solutions.

[MementoMori_]

It's a political declassification not a scientific one. Of course Transgenderism is a disorder. Nature designed humans like every other species... to reproduce. Any deviant behavior that interferes with that is obviously a disorder. If everyone was a transgender it would be the end of the human race.

[blissinanarchy1]

Being transgender is a mental illness. It’s removed to basically mitigate hate and accept them. If you have another mental illness, like bipolar, your symptoms are separable from your identity. If you’re transgender, your symptom is your identity. If someone tells you that your whole identity is wrong, you definitely feel like a freak and maybe even suicidal. Solution? Telling them they’re ok.

[Guardian45]

To be clear, you're asking if Transgenderism should STILL BE classified as Mental Illness or Disorder?

[Physics-Man]

It's no longer classified as a mental illness or disorder. I'm asking if this decision should be reversed to where it is once again considered as such.

[Guardian45]

The Decision should NOT be reversed.

[Fromdusktilldawn]

So wokism has taken over rational scientific institutions.

Just looking at how nature and evolution works we immediately see that transgender or homosexuality is against the principle of how life normally should evolve.

[normalice]

I don't see why it matters. But it is weird that Republicans midterm pitch seems to be that if we just allow people to bully Trans people again and investigate hunter biden, then gas prices will come down.

[Berethor]

A political decision, not health decision, wokeness is crazy, trans are mentally ill.

[Subarugirl]

So is the majority of the population, but it doesn't effect you and they aren't hurting anyone by living their life in a way that they want to. There was a time where being gay was looked at in a similar way...

[BCRanger10]

Category fixed!

And yes, it should be reversed.

[exitseven]

No, it was just a scam to get insurance companies to pay for unnecessary surgery.

[cth96190]

The American Psychological Association has zero credibility now.

[Staximus]

If I said I thought I was a fucking tree and identify as a tree, they would say I'm bat shit crazy. Same thing.

[TheSpaceGnome]

It's definitely a mental illness. Yes it should be reversed.

[joeldalton]

We’ve known “science” has been corrupted by ideology for a while, now.

[AngryCarl]

Not at all. It just means we don't have to waste resources on a condition that's not treatable.

[Snakeyes7]

Yes because it being a mental disorder doesn't mean that we consider them to be bad people, as trans activists would claim it would.

[HaveNoName]

Who cares about what they say. It is a mental disorder and there is no doubt about that.

[Adam1978]

Is stupidity and attention seeking a mental illness? If not it wouldn't be true in all cases.

[Twalli]

Mental disorders can be altered or suppressed with medication.