The American Psychiatric Association just quietly announced the formation of a committee to “set” medical Standards of Care for transsexuality.
Now this might not seem a big deal to most trans people but it is. Essential in understanding why this is important requires a background on medical politics. WPATH (formally HBIGDA) standards of care were guidelines meaning they were unenforcible in terms of being absolute requirements for medical professionals and were basically set in place to cover the asses of the surgeons doing SRS and doctors prescribing hormones. The medical establishment is about to change that and it won’t be progressive in nature.
Actual medical defined Standards of Care will not be guidelines but writ in stone as far as medical practitioners are concerned. There will be no wiggle room, failure to follow the new SOC exactly will be grounds for lawsuits from disgruntled regretters (no more ass covering without complete compliance) and failure to follow them to the letter will be grounds for disciplinary action against those medical professionals (all medical doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists) failing to do so.
WPATH is about to rendered totally impotent. Look for possible Real Life Tests of two years, possibly without hormones. And this is being done preemptory to enforce medical professional compliance with the upcoming DSM revision. It is a direct reaction to the trans “gendering” of WPATH and the over-the-top tranny reaction to the DSM-V revision team. The APA is leaning very conservative these days.
I know this will be dismissed as “sky is falling” on my part. I would remind those saying so, I’ve been right on this sort of thing close to 100% of the time. If you are planning surgery, schedule it now, get your letters now, tomorrow may be too late.
this has been a public informational announcement, you may now resume beating each other and me up.
May 2, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Is this part of a move to give the Zucker crowd absolute control over the trans thing? I’m just curious if he has succeeded in labeling actual transsexual women as fetishists for all time.
I’m also upset that this continues to be in the realm of the psych industry. I don’t think either transsexual men and women OR crossdressers need to be subjected to the social norming abuse of certain individuals in the psych business. When you take a look at many of these ‘practitioners’, it becomes apparent that many of these people are dealing with their own weirdness and projecting onto their ‘patients’.
As far as closet cases like Blanchard and other asshats are concerned, it just sounds like a bunch of hateful gay men have succeeded in getting power over an even smaller minority.
We have people like Vilain who have failed to find any physical basis for their homosexuality, and have turned instead to skewing studies to try and attack the legitimacy of people born with transsexual syndrome. We have closeted homophobes like Bailey who want to label us all as being what he fears himself to be. And on top of it all, we have the transgender political movement playing right into it, delivering us into the hands of those who would do us harm.
By the way, does anyone know what Zucker’s treatment protocols for those young ‘proto-gay’ boys are? It’s been said in a few places that he handles their genitals telling them “remember, you are a boy”. Absolutely horrific. I would like to know if that is true.
There is so much dirt on these hateful men and it’s time it was exposed. So far people are too scared to do it because they have so much respect for institutions and letters behind people’s names. That shit doesn’t impress me. They are still monkeys like the rest of us and they need to be held accountable.
Hateful gay men in the APA should not have power over people with real medical needs, people whom they will abuse gleefully. This needs to be an AMA issue- there is no psychological component to the causes of transsexual syndrome. None whatsoever.
May 3, 2009 at 8:12 pm
All I can say is it’s about time they pulled in the reigns on this silliness.
I am very glad to see this happening.
S
May 4, 2009 at 12:23 pm
@ariablue
> I’m just curious if he has succeeded in labeling actual transsexual women as fetishists for all time.
More Blanchard. Read at your own risk:
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/transvestic-disorder-and-policy-dysfunction-in-the-dsm-v/
May 8, 2009 at 1:23 pm
While I strongly favor tightening the Standards of Care, I am not happy about the idea that those like Zucker and Blanchard might have any input. I mean, imagine if the old Clarke standards were put in place. Stuff like a RLT for hormones… And I would not be surprised to see them wanting to deny surgery to anyone they can label an autogynephile. And not everyone that Blanchard would call an autogynephile is. This could be very bad.
May 9, 2009 at 11:17 am
Sky is falling, hardly.
Fearmongering? Oh, absolutely.
May 9, 2009 at 1:51 pm
It’s going to be fun when Dys gets her surgery. People who feel so passionately about something tend to be myopic, and when they stop squinting and open their eyes the world comes crashing in.
I suppose it’s no big deal to some people that Zucker and his cronies have so much influence. After all, they got theirs right? Nobody gives a shit that kids are still being abused. Nobody seems to think that women being trashed by these goons in the psych industry is a big deal. All anyone seems to care about is GLBT this and Tranny that. How shortsighted.
May 9, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I have to agree. I have completed my transition, but I do worry about those who will follow.
Surgey is not for everyone. I can think of several cases where it was clearly the wrong choice. One such case is someone who, at least in the past, was a very well known activist. That person has written in favor of the “transgender model” which tends to reject the need for surgery. This person’s history includes a period as a member of Tri Ess. After being rejected by a gender clinic, this person persisted and eventually had surgery in Belgium. Clearly, they do not represent a really successful result.
We really don’t need any more who decide to have surgery for the wrong reasons.
May 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm
The problem is that they have changed the meaning of “transsexual” to include those who don’t need surgery. This confuses people, and those who now call themselves “transsexual” are more prone to make the horrible mistake you are talking about.
A crossdresser does NOT need surgery. Surgery does NOT magically make you something you are not. It does not change your brain. How simple do you have to make it before people start getting it?
I suppose if you think of women as nothing more than a pussy and the ability to get knocked up, a confused crossdresser might think they can get halfway there, then talk their way through the rest of it. But… no, and no.
May 9, 2009 at 6:27 pm
It really doesn’t matter anymore is is the symptom of an even larger problem.
I am tired;
Airablue and Jen it’s bigger than you me or any of the few others who seem to care.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Those who really need the surgery and those who want it will go to Thailand and get it from one of the lesser known and lower quality doctors. They will be happy until their first visit to their gynecologist. The homos have taken things over. The self appointed representatives of HBS favor the GLBT. Another movement co opted by the homos.
I speak of Transgender Symposium (TS-SI)
I was banned from there for calling them TG-SI and for implying heir next guest commentator would be Autumn Sandeen. Sharon didn’t like that well fuck her(on second though no you might get something you can’t get rid of).
You guys are fighting a loosing battle get on with your lives and enjoy them while you still have time.
Why bother try and fight a house fire with a squat gun.
Get on with your lives while you still can.
Screw then all, they don’t deserve our help for anything.
Cat don’t bother to ban me I am leaving anyway this is my last post to this nonsense.
I am tired of fighting lost causes.
S