Transgender vets now have a VA clinic

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(11-11-2015, 03:11 PM)GodHatesBengals Wrote: Actually it hasn't been removed from the DSM.

That being said, one can accept the science that suggests it is a disorder without being a jerk about it.

I don't go up to schizophrenics and tell them they're dumb for thinking they see things that aren't there. And if a doctor determines that the best course of action for someone with GID is reassignment surgery, who am I to say otherwise?

It's like if someone argued someone isn't depressed by saying "I can't just call myself a Minotaur".

Because GD says that someone experiences distress because the gender they identify with is different from the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. It doesn't mean they're making it up and it's a problem whose solution is teaching them to not be trans.