Petition
In case you missed this on other sites, this is a Petition to the APA. opposing the announced inclusion Of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and Dr. Ray Blanchard to the Task Force: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders assigned for updating the GID guidelines of DSM-V. Apparently, another associate of the above, Dr. Ann Lawrence is under consideration as a possible alternate member of the task force.
Anyone unclear on Zucker’s approach to gender variance tratment can listen to (or read) NPR’s two part program in which Zucker participated:
There are currently 1,900+global signatures (including mine). There is an option to exclude your named being displayed on the petition site if you are concerned about your privacy.
Signed!
medical science has gone back to the dark ages with this man.
My uncle was a boy who played with dolls and asked for a doll’s house one Christmas. Thank heavens he had parents who weren’t like Zucker - they allowed him to have his doll’s house and wear whatever he wanted to.
Oh, I have a link you might find interesting…
http://unite.blogcatalog.com/
and, I am afraid I can’t remember where I left my last comment/reply to you here so if I never replied to anything important, please send me the blog title of where it’s lurking.
At between three and four years of age, my son requested an infant doll. His mother and I readily agree to the rquest, though both our families had members which expected us to deny the request. The three month period after he actually received the doll was the period of consistent play, though he played with “Rachel” on and off for a year afterwards. Mostly it was the “taking care of” aspects he focused on: feeding, dressing, or holding her. All aspects of him I wanted to encourage.
I must admit it generated alot of concerns in me for him. I didn’t want him to have to face the conflicts and restrictions I had to live with being trans identified. Even with our support, there were issues we would not be able to circumvent or intervene in outside the home. But he resolved many of these himself. He seemed to instinctively know which family members would tease him about it, and he would leave “Rachel” home if we visited them.
He’s just turned sixteen. Like many of the other temporary but intense needs of children, he simply move on to a different need on his own. It never really was a gender issue for him, but by denying him the choice we might have made it one.
Thank you for the link Michelle, and for taking the time to sign the petition.