[SoFloFreeper]

Interesting read from a Christian writer.

[Jim Robinson]

You mean other than being insanely stupid?

[Veto!]

Cannot thank you enough for this article. It’s beautifully written, clears up any possible confusion on the topic. When you see the facts aligned in this clear, comprehensive way, you know exactly what you need to know about this “mental disorder.”

I’m still fuming about the kids who have sex change surgery before the age of puberty when their hormones kick in. How in the world could their parents and doctors possibly think they are doing these kids a favor? Sick, sick, sick.

[ilovesarah2012]

“Approximately 700,000 individuals in the U.S. identify as transgender.”

Where did they get that number? Is there some kind of transgender registry? Do they ask that on the census? Do they do random polls?

Being transgender no longer a mental ‘disorder’ in diagnostic manual

That old diagnosis meant that a man who believed he was destined to be a woman was considered mentally ill.

No longer so.

The new DSM refers to “gender dysphoria,” which focuses the attention on only those who feel distressed by their gender identity.

“I think it’s a significant change,” said Jack Drescher, a member of the American Psychiatric Association group that made the recommendation after working on it for four years. “It’s clinically defensible, but it reduces the amount of stigma and harm that existed before.”

Drescher said there had been calls to remove the diagnosis altogether just as homosexuality was removed from the DSM in 1973. Drescher said he believes that removal changed world opinion on homosexuality.

But gender dysphoria was left as a diagnosis to ensure that a transgender person could still access health care if needed. Hormone treatment would be one example. Another would be counseling for those who need help dealing with their emotions.

Many LGBT activists felt that the gender dysphoria diagnosis could be a powerful legal tool when challenging discrimination in health insurance plans and services.

The National Center for Transgender Equality said it was pleased with the change.

“It will mark a significant lowering of the stigmatization that many trans people have faced,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the center.

“The changes help make clear that there is nothing pathological about having a transgender identity, and that the role of the mental health profession is to affirm and support individuals in being themselves in the face of societal misunderstanding,” she said.

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/27/being-transgender-no-longer-a-mental-disorder-in-diagnostic-manual/

If you are a man who thinks you are a woman or vice versa, you are obviously mentally ill. Nothing has changed.

[Chode]

1) You can't change your gender: Have you ever heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder? Long story short, there are people out there who believe they're "supposed to" have less limbs. Maybe they want to get rid of an arm or a leg. The "problem" these people run into is that surgeons consider it unethical to remove a healthy, functioning body part and refuse to saw off their limbs. Instead, they just refer these people to a psychologist. That seems to make sense, doesn't it?

Yet, when we have people who want to mutilate themselves to "change their sex," we don't treat that as a mental disorder. Instead, we take it seriously. So seriously in fact, we have 9 year olds getting hormone treatments so they can pretend to be another gender.

If a client went to a doctor and said he thought he was a cow, we wouldn't send him to a surgeon to get horns and udders attached. Yet, you can no more change your sex than you can change into a cow. Even if you have a "sex change," your sex hasn't actually changed. A man who mutilates himself to look like a woman, still isn't female. He can't have a child. Very few men are going to knowingly date a man who's surgically mutilated himself to look like a woman. This is a terrible, horrible thing we're doing as a society to these mentally ill people. Instead of getting them the mental help they need, we're catering to their pathology. It's cruel, it's wrong, and a more compassionate society wouldn't wallow so deeply in political correctness that we'd allow people to do this to themselves.

[hoagy62]

The reasons (as I see them):
1. It’s an abomination
2. It’s disgusting
3. It’s against the natural way of things
4. It’s a sign of mental illness
5. It’s gross
6. It’s icky
7. It’s nasty
8. It’s evil
9. Yuck!

[Reddy]

#9 sums it all up: ‘’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” he adds. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”

[Cementjungle]

You can't change your gender, as it exists all the way down at the genetic level. You can disguise your gender with the help of talented surgeons and taking hormones, but you're still the same gender that your genes say you are.

The whole thing is just an indication of mental illness, and surgeries and acceptance isn't addressing the core problem... they are probably just making things worse.

I also don't see anything "normal" about homosexuality. I may be forced to "accept" it in society, but I think that any person with any sense knows that male/female pairing is pretty much the way mother nature designed things to work.

People always say that homosexual behavior has been seen in some animals. My response to that is that I've also observed dogs humping sofas... that doesn't mean that dogs could ever mate with a sofa, and it doesn't mean it's "proper" behavior.

[Organic Panic]

Anyone want to start the transracial movement? I feel like an Arab therefore I am an Arab. Sometimes I might want to be Asian. It’s all about feelings. Who’s with me?

[CodeToad]

every thought Is legit to a liberal, except a belief in God or any moral compass.