“I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible,” the statement read.”
How by any reasonable standard is this NOT a mental illness?
RE: How by any reasonable standard is this NOT a mental illness?
The American Psychological Association has spoken and they have declared that it is NOT a mental illness.
Gov. Chris Christie of NJ has in fact BANNED all “conversion therapy” designed to help such people. Even when they voluntarily WANT to go through such therapy.
BY LAW in California and now in NJ, these people don’t need any help. “They were born that way” is the new mantra.