Quote Originally Posted by LeaP View Post
If you are going to make sweeping assertions, you should know what you are talking about.

From the WPATH SOC V7 itself, page 4:

"Being Transsexual, Transgender, or Gender Nonconforming Is a Matter of Diversity, Not Pathology"

"WPATH released a statement in May 2010 urging the de-psychopathologization of gender nonconformity worldwide (WPATH Board of Directors, 2010). This statement noted that “the expression of gender characteristics, including identities, that are not stereotypically associated with one’s assigned sex at birth is a common and culturally-diverse human phenomenon [that] should not be judged as inherently pathological or negative.”


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The upcoming revision you reference primarily changes the name and category of the GID diagnosis, not its substance. While the revision thankfully removes the diagnosis from the sexual disorders and paraphilias category, the fact that the diagnosis is still in the DSM leaves the pathologization as it was.
Thanks for the information — I was not aware of the 2010 statement changing the official view on transgender and whether or not it is a disorder. Both the APA and WPATH did define transgender as a mental illness for several decades. Transgender people lobbied against both groups for many years, arguing that transgender persons have better insights into transgender mental health than do doctors, who are just as prone as most others out there in society to buy into cultural stereotypes about what variations are to be classified as sicknesses and which are merely human diversity.

One minor corrections to your post is that the DSM-5 replaces GID with “gender dysphoria” and defines the latter as sadness — it is the antonym of euphoria, the latter understood as happiness or joy. GID is gone. Thus, the changes are not superficial; they are more than just a new vocabulary with no change in real meaning.

I am glad that real transgender people won out over both the APA and WPATH. Again, thanks for the information.