It was not that many years ago when the three terms I mentioned were what they called themselves; I've been told, frostily, that "transvestite" is now regarded as a slur. Well, all three words are still in the medical lexicon and that means more to me than do pronouncements by people who won't honor my request to not be called "queer," …
It was not that many years ago when the three terms I mentioned were what they called themselves; I've been told, frostily, that "transvestite" is now regarded as a slur. Well, all three words are still in the medical lexicon and that means more to me than do pronouncements by people who won't honor my request to not be called "queer," so they can f the f off.
Even dysphoria is a replacement for GID, as if the condition is not a disorder. It would seem to me that people who urgently desire what amounts to surgical mutilation have a disorder. OK, not a big deal, the same DSM took homosexuality out of the disorder category in 1974; win some, lose some.
I do hope the backlash you wrote about in Medium (without getting banned, astonishingly) comes to pass real soon now.
It was not that many years ago when the three terms I mentioned were what they called themselves; I've been told, frostily, that "transvestite" is now regarded as a slur. Well, all three words are still in the medical lexicon and that means more to me than do pronouncements by people who won't honor my request to not be called "queer," so they can f the f off.
Even dysphoria is a replacement for GID, as if the condition is not a disorder. It would seem to me that people who urgently desire what amounts to surgical mutilation have a disorder. OK, not a big deal, the same DSM took homosexuality out of the disorder category in 1974; win some, lose some.
I do hope the backlash you wrote about in Medium (without getting banned, astonishingly) comes to pass real soon now.