Comments on: American Psychological Association comments on DSM gender identity issue

By: April Adam

April Adam — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:19:25 +0000

Summer wrote: Ok listen first of all transgenderism and homosexuality are no where near alike. There is a big difference and I personally am very offended by the thought of anyone thinking that it is because it is not. People who are transgendered feel like they are trapped in the opposite sex’ body and it is extremely difficult to cope with while a homosexual is someone who is attracted to someone of the same gender as them.
So this “Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender” community is total make believe? What makes you feel so personally offended? That someone might think you are the “wrong” gender, or the “wrong” sexual orientation? What if I told you that I don’t care whether you call me “April” or “Adam”? Just let me marry Peter and let me be me? The discrimination against L,G,B,&T people is all based on majorities’ assumptions that God made XX=F, XY=M, and only XX+XY=OK. They’re wrong, just like they were about Earth=Center of Universe.

By: Summer

Summer — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:36:11 +0000

Ok listen first of all transgenderism and homosexuality are no where near alike. There is a big difference and I personally am very offended by the thought of anyone thinking that it is because it is not. People who are transgendered feel like they are trapped in the opposite sex’ body and it is extremely difficult to cope with while a homosexual is someone who is attracted to someone of the same gender as them.

By: Pathia

Pathia — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:09 +0000

I’m sorry, until he speaks directly on the trans-community’s concerns, I simply won’t be at ease. As Boo said, the gay population may feel safe now, but I certainly don’t. I’ve already had to sue/threaten to sue/take general legal action just to get health insurance, if they do anything more to ‘help’ me I may end up even worse off.

By: Boo

Boo — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:53:13 +0000

I think it should put most people’s fears to rest regarding Dr. Zucker
Gay people’s maybe, but despite what HRC might have you think, cisgendered homosexuals aren’t the only ones who matter. Not to mention that Zucker’s got a history of talking out of both sides of his mouth on this, as documented in the comments section here:
//2008/05/12/apa-issues-statement-regarding-gid-and-the-dsm-v/

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:31:16 +0000

I don’t mean to make this thread a vehicle for my favorite quotes regarding this issue – but I culled this from the Gay City News article on the subject – and I think it should put most people’s fears to rest regarding Dr. Zucker:
“Seeking to calm the fears, the APA issued a statement on May 9 that explained what the working groups would and would not do. On May 13, Dr. Jack Drescher, an out gay psychiatry professor at New York Medical College and a member of the Zucker working group and the Cohen-Kettenis sub-working group, wrote in a widely circulated email, “There is absolutely no possibility that the diagnosis of homosexuality will be put back into the DSM. Anyone who tells you that it can be, could be, would be, or will be put back in, knows not of what they speak!”
In interviews with the gay press dating back to 1997, Zucker distanced himself from the practitioners of reparative therapy and he has won praise from some gay psychologists and psychiatrists.
Zucker has worked with roughly 540 children with GID, aged two to 12, and followed roughly 90 long-term. The most common outcome is that the boys grow up to be gay and the girls are lesbian or bisexual.
“For boys, the majority are gay,” he said in a May 13 phone interview. “For girls, it’s more equally distributed between lesbian/bisexual versus heterosexual.””