3. Mental Disorder: Issues About the Gay Community

It was not until 1974 that homosexuality was taken out of the APA’s roster of mental illnesses, but even then the psychological organization has been taking a lot of heat from both sides. The issue as to how the sudden change came about, without any scientific research to back it up, still remains a mystery to some members of the scientific community. On the other hand, the stigma left by this branding, despite such developments, had already left it’s mark on the LGBT community.

So the big question still remains as to whether homosexuality is indeed a form of mental illness.

If scientists were able to prove, without the shadow of a doubt, that the human genome was indeed the main culprit, then this nagging question would be gone for good. But such was not the case, as what geneticists and biologists would usually conclude in their findings on the genetic origins of homosexuality. Despite recent breakthroughs in their research, the results remain inconclusive, and as recommended by the researchers themselves, to be used or interpreted with utmost caution.

In a recent publication by the American College of Pediatricians, entitled Gender Ideology Harms Children, we find this statement:

A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).⁵ The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.

Gender or gender role ideology as defined by the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology “refers to attitudes regarding the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of women and men in society,” which in an imperfect world, is constantly subject to prejudice and subjectivism.

The statement by the APA has garnered the usual criticism that this was most likely the brainchild of some sick group of religious fanatics who were pretending to be psychologists. Another wrote that this will pave the way for the religious pitchfork-carrying bigots to relive the inquisitions of the past.

We would all like to adopt the same line of thinking, given the numerous confusing, conflicting and at best, inconsistent statements in the past by similar organizations. But even the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) which supported young homosexuals and care for transgender children, had also recommended referring children suffering from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) to a mental health professional.

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Sources:

Homosexuality: The Mental Illness that Went Away

Gender Ideology Harms Children

Gender Ideology and Gender Role Ideology

Transgederism of Children Is Child Abuse

What Is the General Reaction of the Transgender Community to the APA

Gay Group Promotes Gender Ideology for Children              

Children and Adolescents with GID Referred to a Pediatric Medical Center

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