FireChan Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 Well, I am a clinical psychologist and an educator. Oh yeah, and I also live in Vermont. I'm not organizing LGBT rallies or anything, but it is an issue that I encounter frequently in both my professional and personal life. I receive a great deal of professional development/training on the subject, work with these people first hand, and know and interact with these people personally. It is not untrue to say "if you have a Y you're a guy." That's just a fact. It is dismissive and flat out ignorant, however, to attribute all cases of gender confusion/fluidity as mental illness. That blanket assumption couldn't be further from the truth based on my professional and personal experience. JMO There are cases not directly attributed to the psychiatric condition "gender dysphoria?" Have you told the DSM-V that not everyone with Borderline personality disorder had a personality disorder?
DC Tom Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 There are cases not directly attributed to the psychiatric condition "gender dysphoria?" Have you told the DSM-V that not everyone with Borderline personality disorder had a personality disorder? The DSM tends to lag the psychiatric community, not lead it.
richstadiumowner Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 What's the difference between believing you're Napoleon and believing you're a different sex?
row_33 Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 What's the difference between believing you're Napoleon and believing you're a different sex? Napoleon would be more fun to talk to for 5 minutes at a party?
DC Tom Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 What's the difference between believing you're Napoleon and believing you're a different sex? Beating up Austrians, mostly.
FireChan Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 The DSM tends to lag the psychiatric community, not lead it. And yet, if your mind thinks its in the wrong body, it's not a chromosome problem. It's a mind problem.
DC Tom Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 And yet, if your mind thinks its in the wrong body, it's not a chromosome problem. It's a mind problem. Have a Y, you're a guy. Everything else is behavior, not "mental illness."
Doc Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 In the near future when you go to the doctor to find out what your baby's gender is he will simply say, "I don't know, but it would have to piss standing up". Lol No, he/she will say "well, right now the baby is a boy/girl, but who the !@#$ knows later on?!"
DC Tom Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 No, he/she will say "well, right now the baby is a boy/girl, but who the !@#$ knows later on?!" No, the doctor will report you to the Department of Social Justice for Gender Bigotry simply for asking the question, and the state will take you child away.
/dev/null Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 No, the doctor will report you to the Department of Social Justice for Gender Bigotry simply for asking the question, and the state will take you child away. According to Melissa Harris Perry, your kids belong to the Government anyway
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