… called "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier." Yet policy makers
and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their
confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves …

… encounters. Transgender encounters with a mental disorder diagnosis had a higher
prevalence of chronic medical comorbid diagnoses as compared with transgender
encounters without mental disorder diagnoses. Conclusions …

… examined associations of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation with mental disorders
among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youths … One third of participants met criteria
for any mental disorder, 17% for conduct disorder, 15% for major depression, and 9 …

… As medicine moves beyond a mental disorder model of gender variance, Transgender Mental
Health is timely indeed. Dr. Yarbrough brings his expe- rience and expertise from Callen-Lorde,
one of the most gender-affirming treatment centers in the United States …

… Winter S Thai transgenders in focus: their beliefs about attitudes towards and origins of
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Meyer-Bahlburg HF From mental disorder to iatrogenic hypogonadism …

… Applied psychology has a complex relationship with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) matters … and perhaps even redemptive reversal, professional psychological bodies now
reject the notion that being LGBT is representative of a mental disorder, immorality, or …

… Abstract. Mental health research and practice has traditionally maintained a view of transgender
people through the narrow lens of gender identity disorder. Recently, broader understandings
of gender have influenced affirmative therapy with transgender clients …

… Summary. Background. The conceptualisation of transgender identity as a mental
disorder has contributed to precarious legal status, human rights violations, and
barriers to appropriate health care among transgender people …

… literature, individuals with intersex conditions are often described as having a disorder of sex …
for a diagnosis called gender incongruence, removed from the list of mental disorders and … This
proposal is welcomed by the global transgender community (as well as researchers and …

… Lev (2005) argued that the classification of gender identity disorder as a mental disorder does
not allow for the existence of “healthy, functional transsexuals and transgender people who are
able to seek medical and surgical treatments for their own actualization without being …