I agree that this is a concern right now, but I also think this is something that will see a rapid decline as Trump rolls out his new changes. Eliminating the DOE as well as the other things he has suggested, like prison terms for those pushing transgenderism on a child, restricting surgeries, etc.
Gender Desphoria had an ICD10 code for a mental diagnosis, but when the ICD11 codes came out, it was a little more liberalized.
There are only 2 sexes, others need counseling and support.
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Transgender people often have different genes, such as 3 chromosomes instead of just 2. It is often obvious that they have characteristics of the opposite sex that they were born with. I know some who were suicidal until they acknowledged they were trans. You canât just take away this ability to be trans and expect them to cope. There will be suicides! To deny this to them is pure selfishness, putting your needs to feel superior above their needs to be happy. Why do you keep judging people who are different from you? Let people make their own medical choices. âMy body, my choiceâ - remember? That said, this is too complex to allow children to make these decisions. There is always extensive counseling for trans people before they are allowed to make any physical changes, so your post is uninformed.
Completely untrue that it often leads to violence. I literally just did a research paper on GD.
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Transgenderism is already classified as a mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorder in the medical world. I am a CPC and code it frequently unfortunately. Current ICD 10 code F64.0.
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The more I consider this topic as possible mental disorder, the more I see it closely resembling another topic with which I am more familiar - eating disorders and body dysmorphia. My daughter suffered for over a decade âseeingâ and âfeelingâ things that simply were not, objectively, there. She saw and felt she was a 200 lb woman when, in fact, she was a 120 lb thin young woman. No matter what her mind told her, it wasnât true. What was necessary was mental health counseling that challenged those beliefs. Where did they come from? How do we work to help her see what the rest of the world saw? Iâm seeing a lot of similarities!
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Sad part is it used to be classified as gender dysphoria a mental disorder. There has been some research that may lead to chemicals sprayed on our foods as streams, ponds etc. close to hvy use of chemicals showing frogs and fish becoming infertile and becoming transgendered. Could be a link more independent studies should be demanded.
I believe there are people who know what âde-transitioningâ therapy would like, and we need a committee of experts to begin to lay out plans for creating a new mental health system based on reality based scientific data-h morals and values. The fact is that it will take a massive whole of government approach to doing this. We need to change wokeism treatment concepts. Change universities teaching wokeism ideas. Change licensing boards for needed CEUs and other criteria. Change the DSM to reclassify dysphoria back to disorder. This will require a multi-prong serious plan. Iâd love to be involved.
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Being gay is not a mental disorder. Gender dysphoria is. They are 2 different things. Too many children who were likely just gay have been pushed into âgender affirmingâ care which has done irreparable harm. Too many people who have gender dysphoria have deep issues and with counseling discover and address the root of their issue. Others truly do want to change sex but should only do so once old enough to go through extensive counseling to ensure as smooth a psychological transition as possible. I have a friend who is a trans-woman. I knew her when she was an 18-year-old boy (back in the early 80s). The MD he found made him wait until he was 21 then go through 2 years of counseling before starting hormone therapy and then surgery. Even with that kind of preparation he still struggled. Gender dysphoria and being gay are two different things.
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The problem now is that counselors hands are tied by the current DSM guidance, so referral for counseling is not going to help. They are not allowed to suggest that the person is suffering from mental illness if they want to change their gender.
This is the danger of allowing one source, such as the DSM, to dictate mental health in this country. We need to return to common sense. This is how all healthcare works now⌠providersâ hands are tied by protocols. We saw the results of that in the Covid response. Who decides the protocols?
According to the DSM: if you meet 2 of the criteria on the list (see examples in quotes) for a duration of 6+ months you have gender dysphoria (which is not a mental illness) and you can be authorized for transition.
âA strong desire for the primary and/or secondary sex characteristics of the other gender.
A strong desire to be of the other gender (or some alternative gender different from oneâs designated gender.â
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK577212/table/pediat_transgender.T.dsm5_criteria_for_g/
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Thank you for drawing attention to this important topic. My only concern would be that research tends to follow the money, so we need to be careful whoâs research we trust. This would best be done in the private sector by entities with no conflict of interest. It would also be worth looking into what sources were used to change the DSM guidance in 2013.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK577212/table/pediat_transgender.T.dsm5_criteria_for_g/]
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Thank you for drawing attention to endocrine disrupters in our environment. Many people have been concerned that these may influence the reproductive health of developing bodies. Now we have increased rates of people with homosexual and transgender identities. Correlation does not equal causation, but it does seem worth further research.
Fully agree, however I donât think the most effective means of dealing with this issue is at the government level. The DSM-V is compendium of all known diagnosable mental illnesses, and the reason weâre on version 5 is because it keeps getting changed by psychiatric researchers.
The root of the problem is severe corruption and political activism within the medical research community. The DSM-V declassified Transgenderism as a disorder for political reasons, because the DSM-V is a relatively recent update made by corrupt researchers with overt political motives.
The thing the government could do, however, is to completely halt all federal research funding and require all research institutions to abide by a very strict set of guidelines and an external review process thatâs handled by unaffiliated subject matter experts. Experiments delineated in research papers must be able to be reproduced by the unaffiliated experts. Statistical observations must be triple-checked and the math used must be independently verifiable. Basically, holding research entities accountable to the point where accepting federal funding means submitting to having their work rigorously audited, and facing legal penalties for intentionally falsifying their research.
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(How doctors get around these laws)
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