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The vision of GID Reform
It is time for the medical professions to affirm that difference is not disease,
nonconformity is not pathology, and uniqueness is not illness
It is time for culturally competent psychiatric policies that recognize the legitimacy of cross-gender
identity and yet distinguish gender dysphoria as a serious condition, treatable with medical procedures.
It is time for diagnostic criteria that serve a clear therapeutic purpose, are appropriately inclusive, and
define disorder on the basis of distress or impairment and not upon social nonconformity.
It is time for medical policies which, above all, do no harm to those they are intended to help.
Are you an Advocate for Psychiatric Policy Reform?
Our Advocates page lists
individuals and organizations who support the reform of the current psychiatric
categories of TF and GID.
We'd love to hear from you or your organization. Please fill out our
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an issue to share or paper to post here?
Let us know. Do you have a web site? Please help us with a link to this site.
About your hostess
Kelley Winters, Ph.D.,
is a writer on issues of transgender medical policy, founder of GID Reform
Advocates and an Advisory Board Member for the
Matthew Shepard Foundation
and TransYouth Family Advocates.
She is the author of Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essays from the Struggle for Dignity (2008) and has presented papers
on the psychiatric classification of gender diversity at the annual
conventions of the American Psychiatric Association, the American
Counseling Association and the Association of Women in Psychology.
Her articles have appeared in Psychiatry On-Line, the Journal of
Psychology and Human uality, and the books,
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on
Controversial Issues in and Gender, edited by Elizabeth Paul (2001) and
ual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM),
A Reevaluation , edited by Dan Karasic and Jack Drescher (2005).
Kelley may be reached at
it is time for medical policies which, above all, do no harm to
those they are intended to help
GID Reform Advocates, Calling for reform of the classification of gender diversity as mental disorder
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