The transsexuality is not a mental illness
Weeks ago, the Association of American Psychiatry (APA) announced the revision of its handbook of mental disorders (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - DSMIV), international reference document for the diagnosis and treatment, which includes issues with Unlike the sexual and gender.
However, Kenneth Zucker, an expert appointed for this purpose on the committee, is one of the most ardent advocates of "therapy repair" or "cure" children are presumed to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). So also Ray Blanchard, another expert appointed to review committee of gender identity disorders, said that homosexuals are really sick and that offend sexuality.
We can not allow people with these prejudices are declared part of the review committee. This should be an opportunity for the LGBT community finally ceases to be classified under the specter of mental illness, the opposite would return to the days when homosexuality and all forms not listed in hegemonic heterosexuality and binarism woman / man were persecuted.
If our whole community makes a strong social pressure can prevent thrive prejudices embodied in these two characters and we can advocate for the LGBT identities are no longer considered under the specter of mental illness.
Send your letter of protest NOW! with your action can make a difference.
Please directs your letter to:
Nada L. Stotland, M.D., M.P.H.
President
American Psychiatric Asociados (APA)
e-mail: apa@psych.org
With Copy to:
Belissa Andía Peréz
Secretary Trans
I L G A
e-mail: ilga_trans@ilga.org
SAMPLE LETTER
Madam
Nada L. Stotland, M.D., M.P.H
I am writing as secretary of the association Trans International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersexuales to express our deep concern over the appointment of Kenneth Zucker and Ray Blanchard, the committee formed to review the manuals of mental disorders and disorders Gender identity given its support for therapies that aim to "cure" for young people and children who show an inclination to assume the identities LGBT, attacking his intimate construction of identity and their full freedom.
Sexuality is a multi-level system ranging from the physical to the cultural, in terms of roles and expression of sexual diversity and gender identities, there is a determination primarily cultural. Sexuality has various functions and their purposes are pleased and potentially non-exclusively-reproduction. What genésico and the erotic are different dimensions of human life. Faced with this, arguing that offends sexuality for expressing different sexual orientations to the rule involves a look of that sacred and not think is a natural expression of human experience, reinforcing the heterosexuality as the only valid expression of eroticism. In this regard transsexuality, understood as a subjective expression related identity, is also so recreating the physical body and demands to be recognized, in its proposal diverse gender identity, where the identity trans * means is against biologicista position.
Finally, in recent times psychology is recognizing the limits of its exercise on people's lives. For a long time psychology is no resolve the subjectivities. It is time to give way to that humanity is manifested in all its splendor and psychology professionals should not incurred the right to decide on people's lives.
We request that the review committee is made up of qualified persons, with a broad diversity of sexual and gender in order not to return to the days of persecution of people who think and feel differently.
We trust that you will be given to this issue the attention it deserves.
Sincerely,
Belissa Andia Perez
Secretary Trans
L I G A
International association of Lesbians, Gays,
Bi, Trans, and intersexualidad.
* Trans: Term designating persons transgender, transsexual and travesties.
