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Stigma of mental illness upon emotions and expressions that are ordinary or even exemplary for non-transgender children, adolescents and adults.
Criterion A for Gender Identity Disorder highlights a desire to be treated as, or "frequently passing as," our affirmed gender as pathological. For children, criteria A and B stress ordinary masculine or feminine expression in clothing, play, games, toys, and fantasy as symptoms of mental "disturbance." The supporting text disparages innocent childhood play as disorder, including Barbie dolls, playing house, Batman and "rough-and-tumble" activity, if they violate stereotypes of assigned birth sex. Incredulously, knitting is implicated as a focus of sexual perversion for adult transwomen in the supporting text.

That's ridiculous. I didn't play rough as a child. I mostly played by myself, and I played very odd fantasy games (most of which, thank the lords, I don't remember a bit of). I didn't follow either stereotype, because the girls were weirded out by me and I wasn't tough enough to play with the boys. But...seriously? Playing with Barbies, for a boy, is not always a sign of GID, or even homosexuality. Nor is it always a sign of those two if girls DON'T play with them. I played with Barbies, but my Barbies didn't play house. They were very asexual Barbies, really...

Contradicts transition and access to hormonal and surgical treatments, which are well proven to relieve distress of gender dysphoria.
Social role transition, living and passing in our affirmed gender roles, and desiring congruent anatomic sex characteristics are listed as "manifestation" of mental pathology in criterion A of Gender Identity Disorder. Requests for hormonal or surgical treatment to relieve gender dysphoria are disparaged as "preoccupation" in criterion B and supporting text rather than medical necessity. Evidence of medical transition treatment, such as breast development for transwomen or chest reconstruction for transmen, are described in a negative context as "associated features and disorders" of mental illness in the supporting text.

I don't think I need to say what my problem is with this. So...my desire to change what is so very wrong with my body is an obsession/symptom? WTF? I dare them to say this kind of thing about bio-women who want breast implants, fucking dare them.

Misleading title of "Gender Identity Disorder," suggesting that gender identity is itself disordered or deficient.
The name, Gender Identity Disorder, implies "disordered" gender identity -- that the inner identities of gender variant individuals are not legitimate but represent perversion, delusion or immature development. In other words, the current GID diagnosis in the DSM-IV-TR implies that transwomen are nothing more than mentally ill or confused "men" and vice versa for transmen.

Again...a reason I have been so reluctant to say I have GID or gender dysphoria, as it imples an illness or that I am in some way defective. I am not. I am blessed to be what I am, who I am. My spirit is beatufiul and fine. The outside just needs a little work.

Placement in the class of sexual disorders.
In 1994, Gender Identity Disorders were moved from the class of "Disorders Usually First Evident in Infancy, Childhood or Adolescence," to the section of sexual disorders in the DSM-IV, renamed "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders." This reinforces stereotypes of sexual deviance for gender variant people.

Sex/sexuality=gender expression is made of fail. That's all I have to say on that.


In other news, my Composition teacher is awesome, and my Public Speaking teacher needs to take some Ritalin. Put DOWN the tea women. It's nearly 4, we don't want you that animated.