I am going to be spending next week with family members who are very vocal about their feelings on the transgender community. Where/how can find resources to educate myself? I know the topic will come up and I would like prepare myself somewhat.

  • hoyland@beehaw.org
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    Adding on to this, you can find stats about high rates of “desistence” among children and youth with GID© diagnoses (I’m not sure what that become in DSM-V when GID became “Gender Dysphoria”). However, these stats need to be understood in the context of what the criteria for GID© are–they’re incredibly broad. Any mildly gender-non-conforming child can fit the criteria if their parents dislike their gender non-conformity (there’s a quasi-conspiracy theory that it was a backdoor to “treating” “pre-homosexual” kids after the removal of homosexuality from the DSM). It’s no shock that most of these kids don’t grow up to be trans–they mostly weren’t making a statement about their gender identity in the first place!

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      So a bit off topic but I found it interesting. I was looking for what GID stood for, gender identity disorder, and ran into an article discussing the DSM-V debat in changing the diagnosis.

      I loved this little quote:

      [Daryl Hill] insisted, GID is not a mental disorder at all. More than anything else, the criteria described reflect “the distress often experienced by parents” who have become “preoccupied with the negative aspects” of their son’s or daughter’s behavior as the child struggles to make sense of gender-related feelings