Posted on 06/13/2023 6:50:14 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
This is a 13 page read (see PDF at the article link) from the American Psychiatric Association. There are many footnotes at the end, so the read is shorter. Make sure you get to the part about hormones therapy and genital mutilation (they call it surgery) on page 8. Something that I think most will find interesting is the abuse of language. Things like ‘assigned gender’, ‘gender affirming surgery’, and ‘gender binary’ are all terms defined and used by the APA.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychiatry.org ...
Every institution in America is corrupted and it kills.
Psychological counselling to the gay and trans population is too hard.
Let’s just not do it.
Phrenology was once the “scientific consensus” (measuring bumps on the head to diagnose diseases).
ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF GENDER DYSPHORIA AND GENDER VARIANT PATIENTS...
► Cisgender: a term for individuals whose experienced and expressed gender are congruent with their gender assigned at birth [based on something called "biology"].
► ►► ► ► ►► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ►► ► ► - https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/bbbb42e2-bee7-4de0-86af-fb3cf916e5b6/Resource-Document-2018-Assessment-Treatment-Gender-Dysphoria-Gender-Variant-Patient-A-Primer-for-Psychiatrists.pdf
Christian (Biblical): a person who effectually believers on the Divine Son of God, the crucified and risen Lord Jesus who saves repentant sinners on His expense and account, and whose identify corresponds to what he or she is spiritually, congruent with their spiritual birth. They thus, when acting consistent with their spiritual birth, act and uphold God's universal moral laws.
In which
God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.
And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF GENDER DYSPHORIA AND GENDER VARIANT PATIENTS...
► Assigned gender: the gender attributed to an individual after birth; for most individuals, this corresponds to the sex on their original birth certificate, aka assigned sex.*
Cisgender: a term for individuals whose experienced and expressed gender are congruent with their gender assigned at birth [based on something called "biology"].
►Experienced gender: one’s sense of belonging or not belonging to a particular gender; aka gender identity.
► Expressed gender: how one expresses one’s experienced gender. ► Gender: a person’s social status as male (boy/man) or female (girl/woman) or alternative category.*
► Gender assignment: assignment of a gender to an individual. In typically developed new- borns the initial or “natal” gender assignment is usually made on the basis of the appearance of the external genitalia.
► Gendered behavior: Behavior in which males and females differ on average.
► Gender binary: a gender-categorization system limited to the two options, male and female. ► Gender confirming surgery: surgical procedures intended to alter primary and/or secondary sex characteristics to affirm a person’s experienced gender identity, aka sex reassignment surgery.
► Gender dysphoria (not capitalized): distress caused by the discrepancy between one’s experienced/expressed gender and one’s assigned gender and/or primary or secondary sex characteristics.
► Gender Dysphoria (capitalized): a diagnostic category in DSM-5, with specific diagnoses defined by age-group-specific sets of criteria. The present paper addresses only Gender Dysphoria in adults.
► Gender identity: one’s identity as belonging or not belonging to a particular gender, whether male, female or a non-binary alternative; aka experienced gender.
► Gender Identity Disorder: a diagnostic category in DSM-III and DSM-IV that was replaced in DSM-5 by Gender Dysphoria.
► Gender incongruence (not capitalized): Incongruence between experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender and/or psychical gender characteristics.
► Gender Incongruence (capitalized): A diagnostic category (analogous to Gender Dysphoria in DSM-5) proposed for ICD-11.
► Gender variance: any variation of experienced or expressed gender from socially ascribed norms within the gender binary.
► Genderqueer: an identity label used by some individuals whose experienced and/or ex- pressed gender does not conform to the male/female binary or who reject the gender binary. Gender role: cultural/societal definition of the roles of males and females (or of alternative genders).
► Gender transition: the process through which individuals alter their gender expression which may or may not involve medical/surgical interventions.
► Intersex: (1) A subset of the somatic conditions known as disorders of sex development in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with genital sex, or in which the genital or gonadal sex is not classifiable as either male or female. As used here intersex does not refer to individ- uals who report their identity as intersex in the absence of a verifiable intersex condition. ► Sex: a person’s categorization as biologically male or female, usually on the basis of the geni- tals and reproductive tract.*
► Transgender: an umbrella term usually referring to persons whose experienced or expressed gender does not conform to normative social expectations based on the gender they were assigned at birth.
►Transsexual: a subset of transgender individuals who desire to modify, or have modified, their bodies through hormones or surgery to be more congruent with their experienced gender
- https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/bbbb42e2-bee7-4de0-86af-fb3cf916e5b6/Resource-Document-2018-Assessment-Treatment-Gender-Dysphoria-Gender-Variant-Patient-A-Primer-for-Psychiatrists.pdf
Christian (Biblical): a person who effectually believers on the Divine Son of God, the crucified and risen Lord Jesus who saves repentant sinners on His expense and account, and whose identify corresponds to what he or she is spiritually, congruent with their spiritual birth. They thus, when acting consistent with their spiritual birth, act and uphold God's universal moral laws.
In which
God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.
And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
I’m not sure “hardness” is the issue.
The $$ is in the mutilation surgery and life-long drugs.
Plus, think of all the $$ via from the ones who attend drag queen shows for kiddies — like recruiters for ball players, these scouts have ID’d the vulnerable brought to these events by parents. Pedos fund these events and pay for names and piccies. In lieu of “psychiatry” they “counsel” the victims and then turn them over to the labs.
It’s past time for psychiatry to be banned and it’s practitioners locked up for their crimes.
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