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.

BEG GAY IS LKED TO THE BLOGIL MECHANISMS, SCIENTISTS SAY

“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.

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

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.