Another mind blowing question by BJ69. =]
Ok the "difficulty" of this question is 99.9% relative to your whole preconceived notions about the idea but I want you to consider the following and think about it before you answer the question..
This is a question on psychology:
Some of you may or may not realize that if you were gay in the past you were considered to have a mental disorder diagnosable by the DSM IV. (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
I personally am hetero, but I major in psychology. I completely agree that being gay is NOT = to having a mental disorder. I know a few gay people who are probaly a great deal saner than myself. :lol:
I'm going to push the question further now because this is actually a question in my head I can't reach a logical conclusion for. One day in the future I will prob be faced with someone who comes into my office and I'm just not sure the DSM takes the right position on this issue.
The question is:
Do you consider a transgender person, somebody who wants to be the opposite gender of which they were born, someone with a mental disorder? :scratch:
The DSM IV currently says YES, the disorder is called "gender identity disorder" and its considered a diagnosable mental disorder.
But is it really? :thumbsup: or :no:
Thats my question. I have met only **1** transgender person in my life but never got to know them good enough to make any solid judgements about them, even if I did my judgements on one person arent generalizable to a whole population. And I really stand on the fence with this question. One part of me wants to say no! these people DO NOT have a mental disorder, but another part of me says maybe they really do..
I just want peoples philosophies, opinions, ANYTHING because out of everything I've studied in that book this is one topic Im really puzzled by.
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