Pathologizatn: Beg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Trans is Not an Illns

Contents:

• PATHOLOGIZATN: BEG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND/OR TRANS IS NOT AN ILLNS
• BEG GAY IS LKED TO THE BLOGIL MECHANISMS, SCIENTISTS SAY
• BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED EATG DISORR AND BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORR PATHOLOGY GAY AND HETEROSEXUAL MEN: A SYSTEMATIC ANALYS OF GNIVE, AFFECTIVE, BEHAVRAL UND PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS

PATHOLOGIZATN: BEG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND/OR TRANS IS NOT AN ILLNS

– Speakg ahead of the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on 17 May, a group of Uned Natns and ternatnal human rights experts* ll for an urgent end to the pathologizatn of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) adults and children. Brandg LGBT people as ill is also lked to sexual vlence, cludg so-lled “rrective” rape agast lbian, bisexual and trans women as well as transphobic and homophobic vlence and bullyg faced by young people on the basis of their actual or perceived genr inty and sexual orientatn, wh severe impacts on their mental and physil health and well-beg, cludg higher rat of suici, prsn and self-harm. We wele progrs the pathologizatn of same-sex attractn sce the World Health Organizatn stopped treatg homosexualy as an illns and removed om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas twenty six years ago, but we rema ncerned that homosexualy ntu to be pathologized by some natnal medil associatns.

“We object to the sickns theory of homosexualy tenacly held wh utter disregard for the disastro nsequenc of this theory to the homosexual, based as is on poor science, ” wrote Kameny a follow-up letter to the edor of Psychiatric News published the July 7, 1971, issue. “I thk was impossible at that time to be openly gay and to be a psychiatry rint any good program Ameri—or, as far as I know, to be, the 1960s, an excellent and rpected bisexual or gay analytic psychiatrist, ” said former APA Print Lawrence Hartmann, M. He and Spzer, then a member of the APA Task Force on Nomenclature and Statistics, suggted that those who felt fortable wh their sexual orientatn uld ncentrate on other problems whout feelg that their homosexualy self was a sign of psychopathology, and those who felt nflict wh their sexualy would no longer feel that the ultimate goal of psychiatric treatment would be to bee heterosexual.

AbstractThe Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn have suggted for many years now that there is signifint empiril evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is a normal variant of human sexual orientatn as opposed to a mental disorr. The accatn of g outdated material and viatg to realms beyond the spe of one's expertise impli two thgs; first, impli that there actually is rmatn that is more up-to-date than what the nun prented on the topic of homosexualy, and sendly impli that there are credible experts who are more qualified to teach or speak on the topic of homosexualy. Hence, is necsary to provi a summary and analysis of that purported up-to-date scientific evince which supports the claim that homosexualy is not a mental two groups that are typilly emed thorative and credible experts on mental disorrs the Uned Stat are the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn; th, I will prent their stanc on homosexualy and then analyze the “scientific evince” that they claim supports their stanc.

BEG GAY IS LKED TO THE BLOGIL MECHANISMS, SCIENTISTS SAY

As a rult of their ficienci, the credibily of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the APA, at least their claims regardg human sexualy, is lled to Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric AssociatnI will beg by scribg the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and I will then prent their stanc on the topic of homosexualy. Dog so will provi more evince of the stance of both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Two Associatns’ Stance on HomosexualyThe APA wr:Same-sex sexual attractns, behavr, and orientatns per se are normal and posive variants of human sexualy— other words, they do not dite eher mental or velopmental disorrs.

2009, 15) Brief of Amici Curiae for both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn siar language:Des of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream mental health anizatns this untry to the ncln that homosexualy is a normal form of human sexualy. (Brief of Amici Curiae 2003, 1)Hence, the basic stance of the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn is that homosexualy is not a mental disorr but is rather a normal form of human sexualy, and they propose that their stance is based on signifint scientific evince. )Aled KseyThe APA Task Force document proceeds by cg two books wrten by Aled Ksey 1948 and 1953 (Sexual Behavr the Human Male and Sexual Behavr the Human Female):At the same time that the pathologizg views of homosexualy Amerin psychiatry and psychology were beg dified, untervailg evince was accumulatg that this stigmatizg view was ill found.

Therefore, there is a normal variatn (or a normal “ntuum”) of sexual replacg homosexualy wh the exampl of body tegry inty disorr and self-harm/self-mutilatn Aled Ksey's and the APA's argument (that is, if we follow the logic of Ksey and the APA) the argument would be as follows:. Ford and Beach also “pot out that among non-human primat both mal and femal engage homosexual activy” (Gentile and Miller 2009), the APA thors suggt that bee two rearchers 1951 found that homosexual sex is observed some humans and animals then the ncln follows that there is “nothg unnatural about .

BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED EATG DISORR AND BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORR PATHOLOGY GAY AND HETEROSEXUAL MEN: A SYSTEMATIC ANALYS OF GNIVE, AFFECTIVE, BEHAVRAL UND PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS

Evelyn Hooker admistered a battery of standard psychologil tts to homosexual and heterosexual men who were matched for age, IQ, and tn … She nclud om her data that homosexualy is not herently associated wh psychopathology and that “homosexualy as a clil enty do not exist. My foc for this paper is the irrelevant endpot—“adjtment”—ed by Hooker as scientific evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is normal; I foc on that endpot bee as of 2014 “adjtment” is still the endpot ced by the major associatns as scientific evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is a “normal variatn of human sexual orientatn.

2009, 23, emphasis add)That last le which I emphasized is extremely important; the “newly veloped measur” pared the “adaptatn” and abily to functn society homosexuals and heterosexuals and ed the parison to support the ncln that homosexualy is not a disorr. Gonsrek impli that if sexual orientatn is “related” to psychologil adjtment, then one uld nsir homosexually cled people to be mentally disorred; if, however, there is no difference adjtment measurements of heterosexuals and homosexuals, then (acrdg to Gonsrek) homosexualy is not a mental disorr. The brief then offers a few more catns of scientific evince supportg that claim; one article ced is a review study om 1978 which also looked at “adjtment” and “nclus that fdgs to date have not monstrated that the homosexual dividual is any ls psychologilly adjted than his heterosexual unterpart” (Hart et al.

” Gonsrek claims that bee homosexuals are siar to heterosexuals measur of prsn, self-teem, relatnship disrd, and sexual disrd, tomatilly follows that homosexualy is not a disorr, as he not: “The general ncln is clear: The studi overwhelmgly suggt that homosexualy per se is not related to psychopathology or psychologil adjtment” (Gonsrek 1991, 115–36).