17-01-2014, 08:12 PM
Please don't take me wrong, interbingung. I'm not passing judgment on fetishists. What I'm objecting to is the psychiatric community's insistence that Transvestic Fetishism is a disorder, i.e., a mental illness, and that autogynephilia is a subclass in the DSM-V.
Autogynephilia, according to Dr. Ray Blanchard, asserts that all transsexual women who are not exclusively attracted to males are motivated to transition by self-obsessed sexual fetishism.
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/transvestic-disorder-the-overlooked-anti-trans-diagnosis-in-the-dsm-5/
If you agree with that characterization, fine, but a lot of people find the term very offensive. It assumes the sexual orientation and gender identity are linked when they are clearly not.
DSM-V has made progress in the way mental health professionals view and treat the transgender condition, but there's still a ways to go.
CK
Autogynephilia, according to Dr. Ray Blanchard, asserts that all transsexual women who are not exclusively attracted to males are motivated to transition by self-obsessed sexual fetishism.
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/transvestic-disorder-the-overlooked-anti-trans-diagnosis-in-the-dsm-5/
If you agree with that characterization, fine, but a lot of people find the term very offensive. It assumes the sexual orientation and gender identity are linked when they are clearly not.
DSM-V has made progress in the way mental health professionals view and treat the transgender condition, but there's still a ways to go.
CK