Now a days when people deviate from the social norms we have to find a explanation as to "what's wrong" with them. If we are introduced to someone who acts unexpectedly wrong we cast them away as misfits or crazy. With GID, psychologists have proven to be no different when it comes to this idea. GID is a disorder in the Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that expresses someone with extreme unhappiness with their biological sex. Apparently this is supposed to be crazed obsession in my eyes. Many transgender people as well as professionals support the declassification of these type of disorders as mental illness (wiki). My question is why has it even been classified in the first place, and it all seems to comes back to the point that it is not normal for a woman to desire to be a man or vice versa. When it all comes down to it, I feel as though this is a way of discriminating against unique individuals. It also is seemingly unfair. There have been criticism and research done over the several years since the classification in the DSM many years ago. Within posts to come I want to continue to develop and explore the disorder as well as hopefully figure out why we have decided it fit to put transgender people or people who desire to trans into a category of mentally ill.
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Here's a picture that I found interesting as well personifying the idea of the DSM trapping transgender people within the DSM as mentally ill:
-Brittani Moorer
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