(16-01-2012, 02:52 PM)Isabelle Wrote: After publication of the DSM-5, you may have to lie to get any help at all. Ray Blanchard is actually chairing the DSM-5 committee on paraphilias.
The DSM-5 time line is now in the third public feedback period, until the end of February:
"January-February 2012: Revised draft diagnostic criteria will be posted on www.dsm5.org and open to a third public feedback period for two months. Feedback will be shared directly with work group members, and further edits to proposals will be made as needed."
http://www.dsm5.org/about/Pages/Timeline.aspx
So there is still time to get the transvestic disorder removed from the DSM-5, on the gound that it serves no constructive therapeutic purpose.
http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/transvestic-disorder-the-overlooked-anti-trans-diagnosis-in-the-dsm-5/
Scroll down to "What you can do now".
The new criteria imply that as long as you don't cross dress, but do grow breasts, you can get help. Once you admit to cross dressing, you don't get help.
(16-01-2012, 03:12 PM)julieTG Wrote: Dressing for the bedroom
Does that count ?
You can feel a pincer movement,
Big pharma attempting too stop people like Inhouse pharmacy, then trying too regulate herbal supplements which help us, now trying too dicate our dressing habits ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
J
(18-01-2012, 11:51 PM)JMT Wrote: Janet, if you reply, I hope it's with something like:
"Not half as well as you do",
"I'm sure you wish I did", or
"I might if you had one"
Though in all seriousness, jerks like that don't deserve recognition, but it might be helpful to remind them that thousands of people have died for our rights to freely express ourselves, and comments like that are just piss on their graves. Being a senior center, that might get through to them.