PMID- 19838785
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100623
LR  - 20100324
IS  - 1573-2800 (Electronic)
IS  - 0004-0002 (Linking)
VI  - 39
IP  - 2
DP  - 2010 Apr
TI  - Queer diagnoses: parallels and contrasts in the history of homosexuality, gender 
      variance, and the diagnostic and statistical manual.
PG  - 427-60
LID - 10.1007/s10508-009-9531-5 [doi]
AB  - The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the process of revising its 
      Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), with the DSM-V having an anticipated 
      publication date of 2012. As part of that ongoing process, in May 2008, APA 
      announced its appointment of the Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity 
      Disorders (WGSGID). The announcement generated a flurry of concerned and anxious 
      responses in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, mostly 
      focused on the status of the diagnostic categories of Gender Identity Disorder 
      (GID) (for both children and adolescents and adults). Activists argued, as in the 
      case of homosexuality in the 1970s, that it is wrong to label expressions of 
      gender variance as symptoms of a mental disorder and that perpetuating 
      DSM-IV-TR's GID diagnoses in the DSM-V would further stigmatize and cause harm to 
      transgender individuals. Other advocates in the trans community expressed concern 
      that deleting GID would lead to denying medical and surgical care for transgender 
      adults. This review explores how criticisms of the existing GID diagnoses 
      parallel and contrast with earlier historical events that led APA to remove 
      homosexuality from the DSM in 1973. It begins with a brief introduction to binary 
      formulations that lead not only to linkages of sexual orientation and gender 
      identity, but also to scientific and clinical etiological theories that 
      implicitly moralize about matters of sexuality and gender. Next is a review of 
      the history of how homosexuality came to be removed from the DSM-II in 1973 and 
      how, not long thereafter, the GID diagnoses found their way into DSM-III in 1980. 
      Similarities and differences in the relationships of homosexuality and gender 
      identity to psychiatric and medical thinking are elucidated. Following a 
      discussion of these issues, the author recommends changes in the DSM-V and some 
      internal and public actions that the American Psychiatric Association should 
      take.
FAU - Drescher, Jack
AU  - Drescher J
AD  - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College, 440 
      West 24th St., Suite 1A, New York, NY 10011, USA. jadres@psychoanalysis.net
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Arch Sex Behav
JT  - Archives of sexual behavior
JID - 1273516
SB  - IM
MH  - *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
MH  - *Homosexuality
MH  - Humans
MH  - Sexual and Gender Disorders/*diagnosis/therapy
MH  - Transsexualism/*diagnosis/therapy
RF  - 242
EDAT- 2009/10/20 06:00
MHDA- 2010/06/24 06:00
CRDT- 2009/10/20 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/10/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/06/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s10508-009-9531-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Sex Behav. 2010 Apr;39(2):427-60. doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9531-5.