3/ Devita Singh's dissertation, which we uploaded: http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2016/01/SINGH-DISSERTATION.pdf … 70% of GIC patients met the diagnostic criteria for what used
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4/ to be called "Gender Identity Disorder" in the DSM-IV (it's now just "gender dysphoria). Here r the criteria:pic.twitter.com/KcMkGfhWFq
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5/ Now, I hope people never stop critiquing the DSM, since it is an important, historically troubled document. BUT looking at those
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6/ criteria, they are fairly rigorous. You're not getting that diagnosis if you're an otherwise happy boy who just likes to put on a wig.
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7/ That's 70% of GIC clientele. Many of the other 30% were borderline, but didn't make the cut. Interestingly, Singh found NO DIFFERENCE
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8/ in the likelihood of persistence (meaning, gender dysphoria in childhood --> transgender ID in adulthood) between the threshold and
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9/ subthreshold groups in her study. Which suggests that even those who weren't "officially" dysphoric by DSM logic were experiencing
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10/ something real. Anyway, Julia Serano is wonderful (read her piece on dating in San Francisco), but on this I happen to think she's
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11/ incorrect. In her email to me she seemed to be saying that the GIC was "treating" kids who weren't even dysphoric. This rumor also
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12/ made its way into the... "troubled" External Review. It's false. That doesn't mean *other* criticisms of the GIC are invalid, of
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13/ course, but for productivity's sake folks should make sure they're arguing over the same clinic. Just a point I wanted to clarify. TY
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