dallasvoice.com – By Renee Baker – Contributing Writer
Latest version of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual still includes gender variance as a disorder, recommends ‘reparative’ therapy
Mental illness can carry a heavy stigma. It can destroy families, end careers, cause health care to be turned down and even the most basic of human rights to be denied.
Just look at homosexuality as an example: It was once labeled a mental disorder, and the liberation of LGB people today continues to depend upon them having a clean bill of mental health.