If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?
- Maybe it’s time that that amendment should be revisited and re-evaluated.
This is very likely happening right now. And not in a good way.
The individuals that have been put in charge of the APA’s Division 44 – particularly Ken Zucker (who promotes “conversion therapy” for transgendered individuals) and Ray Blanchard (who invented the fake mental illness of “autogynephilia”) – are notorious for not only pathologizing gender identity but conflating it with sexual orientation/preference as well. Both harbor views that are in direct conflict with the mainstream research, as well as basic common sense, in this area.
It’s not at all unlikely – if the professional records of these two are any indication – that DSM-V will once again include references to homosexuality as a mental disorder, in the context of prescribed treatment for genetically or hormonally transgendered individuals. This would set an irrational and very dangerous precedent (characteristics that pervade the DSM, given that there is virtually no real science, per se, involved in the field of psychiatry) – not only for transgendered individuals, but for gay and lesbian individuals as well.
