huffingtonpost.com – Joanne Herman – Transgender advocate and author of “Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not”
Many transgender people, me included, bristle at the notion that we are mentally ill. This was especially the case when Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition spoke out in April against allowing teachers who transition genders to retain their jobs:
Why are we giving our schoolchildren over to people with a serious mental disorder?” … “We have no problem with people with a serious mental disorder receiving help, but to give them an elevated status within civil rights, within law is very different.