All week long I’ve been running posts about: “GID Removed from the DSM.” Hopefully, you’ve noticed, I’ve run a number of posts that warned against excessive exuberance. My take on GID and its return to its original name is this:  Did any one really expect a bunch of people making money off a bunch of sketchy at best “diagnoses” to kill one of their money streams?

Dysphoria without all the baggage of the multitextural term “gender” does sort of describe what pushes people to come out as transsexual or transgender.  Of course discomfort and a searching for happiness or comfort within one’s own skin is one of those basic freedoms.

Placed in a different context, the requirement that TS/TG people submit to a degrading and stigmatizing label in order to obtain medical treatment is same as the invasive vaginal ultra sound  probe before being permitted to obtain an abortion. It is allowing people to insert religion based road blocks between patient and physician.

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