[markomalley]

I'd heard that they were talking about doing this; I didn't know that they had actually done so.

Geez. So I guess removing pedophilia and bestiality from the list of paraphilias is next.

[Shadow44]

If I self-identify as being made of glass, I’m mentally ill.

If I self-identify as Napoleon Bonaparte, I’m crazy.

If I self-identify as black when I’m white, I’m nuts.

But being a woman trapped in a man’s body is OK.

[Paved Paradise]

You can bet the farm on it, Mark. God have mercy on us. And I blame the Church. Yes, every single one of us who claims to profess Christ. We have allowed all of us to creep in. I know many people have been watchmen and have been the voices crying in the wilderness, but there just were not enough of us. Let’s face it, when the Catholics vote Obama over their church’s positions on abortion and gay marriage, there is something really rotten in the pews. And I’m not going to single out the Catholic Church. The Protestant churches have been going downhill for years as well...focusing on entertainment and not scripture.

[Paved Paradise]

That is supposed to read “all of this” and not “all of us.” Typing hastily and not proofing.

[KC_Lion]

Communist Goals 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[ilovesarah2012]

I think the psychiatric term used to be “nutty as a fruitcake”.

[WorkingClassFilth]

An argument that never fails to derail conflicts with GBLT (pronounced ‘giblet’) people and their supporters is this:

Q: What is the evolutionary purpose in encoding ‘gay’ behavior?
A: Terminate this experiment.

Truth is, facilitating ‘gay’ (never actually gay) behavior is to enable species specific suicide. In short, there is no utility in encouragement of self-terminating reproductive behavior.

[goodnesswins]

So...”transgendered” is NORMAL now??? (I want to run away.)

[Girlene]

Bestiality will never be considered normal because the animal cannot consent. PETA would have a "cow".

According to WIkipedia, pedophiliia is considered "a psychiatric disorder in persons 16 years of age or older typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest toward prepubescent children (generally age 11 years or younger, though specific diagnosis criteria for the disorder extends the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13)."

In most states the age of consent is 16, although there are a few that go as low as 14. If that number gets much lower, I could see some blurring of the lines.

Oh, and as to the original - transgendered persons.......no matter what the psychiatric association says.....they aren't normal.

[Viennacon]

The coup against actual science continues within the psychiatric community. Nothing has changed. No new studies have discredited the original ones. Purely political change.

[PGR88]

Sorry if I offend, but most psychologists I meet are themselves a little (or a lot) off kilter.

[RicocheT]

“Geez. So I guess removing pedophilia and bestiality from the list of paraphilias is next.”

Yes, you get it, perversions and acts against God’s laws can be erased by a word, dysphoria. Inter species coitus dysphoria or young person coitus dysphoria will be how nasty acts will be dismissed as no big deal.

[LifeComesFirst]

So if you have a delusion about who you are but “don’t suffer from it” the psychiatric establishment will not consider you to have a mental illness? Somebody who thinks they are Napoleon and enjoys it is perfectly mentally healthy?

Psychiatrists aren’t defending themselves well against accusations of pseudoscience.

[Little Ray]

I guess that is all the proof we need that psychiatry and psychiatrists have gone complete around the bend - they’re all crazy.

[NCLaw441]

I confess that the whole concept of transgender is baffling to me. If I understand correctly, according the modern thought what one wears, what one does with one’s body, who one has sex with, etc. are all now normal. With that background, exactly what does it mean to be transgendered? How can one view himself as either male or female, if the definitions of those things are no longer valid? What does it mean to view oneself as being of another gender?