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EightySeven posted...

adjl posted...

Remember kids: Doctors are only right if you like what they're saying.

Which doctors? Gender Dysphoria is still very much a thing according to the DSM.

You mean a book that was published five years ago doesn't include a definition update that was first released two days ago and won't be finalized for another four years? Whoa.

In all seriousness, I would expect the DSM to reflect this in subsequent versions. Calling gender dysphoria a mental disorder has always been a bit of a grey area, given that it's so often treated physically. Would I personally have declassified it as such? I'd say it's still too much of a grey area for that in my books, but I'm not a disease classification specialist. This also isn't final. As the link says, this is just a preliminary release to allow people to plan for and discuss the changes before they're formally presented in a year, then they'll come into effect in 2022.
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