US Report Calls for a Ban on Conversion “Therapies” for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender.
“This groundbreaking report dispels widespread misconceptions about sexual and gender development and definitively concludes that treatments designed to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity do not work, are devastatingly harmful to ‘victims’ of this type of therapy, and should not be considered appropriate mental health services,” says Dr. Celia B. Fisher, who served on the expert consensus panel.
The report from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) is based on a thorough review of relevant research.
The expert panel was set up by SAMHSA and the American Psychological Association (APA) earlier this year, and included prominent figures in LGBTQ human rights, policy, research, treatment, and advocacy.
hey truscum did you know that when you tell a trans person that they are cis you are in fact misgendering them
how hard is this to understand. stop being horrible.
Hey tucutes, did you know, that being trans without dysphoria means you’re not trans?
How hard is this to understand. Stop being horrible.
No, grandtran, you do not get to define the word transgender. The common usage, as developed by the transgender community and associated researchers, is as an umbrella term for all types of gender variance.
Here are are the ways leading trans activists and health organizations define transgender:
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH “[Transgender:] Adjective to describe a diverse group of individuals who cross or transcend culturally defined categories of gender. The gender identity of transgender people differs to varying degrees from the sex they were assigned at birth”
The American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5 definition) “Transgender refers to the broad specter of individuals who transiently or persistently identify with a gender different from their natal gender.”
American Psychological Association "Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.”
American Medical Student Association “'Transgender’ is an umbrella term used by people in a number of different groups, including but not limited to cross-dressers (those who wear clothing of the other sex some of the time) to genderqueer people (those who feel that they belong to either both genders or neither gender) and transsexuals (an older term for people who take hormones and have sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in order to transition to a different sex.“
The UK National Health Service (NHS) "Trans and transgender are terms that are used to describe people who don’t conform to the traditional division of male and female.Trans embraces many different types of people and lifestyles, including:
People who cross-dress (transvestite people). These people sometimes wear the clothing of the opposite sex, but don’t want to live full-time as a member of the opposite sex.
People who feel that they’re both male and female, or neither male nor female.
Drag queens, drag kings and other people who don’t appear conventionally masculine or feminine.
Transsexual people. These are people who have a strong and constant desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. Many transsexual people have gender reassignment treatment to make their appearance more consistent with their preferred gender. This often involves hormone therapy and surgery.”
Gender Equity Resource Center, Berkeley
Transgender people are those whose psychological self (“gender identity”) differs from the social expectations for the physical sex they were born with. For example, a female with a masculine gender identity or who identifies as a man.
An umbrella term for transsexuals, cross-dressers (transvestites), transgenderists, gender queers, and people who identify as neither female nor male and/or as neither a man or as a woman. *)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary “[Transgender:] of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth.”
Trans activist Cristan Williams “[Transgender is] Anyone whose physical makeup, emotional, sexual and/or self-expression is in conflict with current cultural gender stereotypes.”
Professor Susan Stryker in the book Transgender History “I use [the term transgender in] this book to refer to people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over(trans-) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender.”
Trans activist and philosopher Julia Serano “Transgender is a big umbrella word that includes all sorts of people who in one way or another defy other people’s expectations regarding gender. It not only includes transsexuals, but also people who are gender queer that is who don’t identify exclusively as either male of female. In its broadest definition it includes people who are feminine men and masculine women.”*)
The broad umbrella interpretation is also shared by most other leading trans activists, including Janet Mock, Andrea James and Laverne Cox.
None of these definitions require gender dysphoria. There are definitions of the word transsexual that require dysphoria, but this does not apply to the broader terms trans or transgender.
if people think you dont need dysphoria to be trans then what do they think you need?????? what separates you from a cis person besides saying “oh i decided i wanted to be”??
that doesnt make any sense?
There are exceptions to any rule, but the most common interpretation is that you need gender dysphoria to be classified as transsexual, but not as transgender.
Transgender is an umbrella term that cover all types of gender variant people – including transsexual men and women, crossdressers, crossdreamers, genderqueer, girlfags, drag queens and more.
Some transgender people identify with their assigned sex at birth, others have a different sex identity, and some refuse to be classified gender wise all-together.
The word transsexual refers to those who clearly identify with their target sex and who, before transitioning, suffer severely from a misalignment between their physical body and their sex identity.
Some trans activists (like Julia Serano) uses the word cissexual (as opposed to cisgender) to identify non-transsexual people, including non-transsexual transgender people. Following this logic a male to female crossdresser or crossdreamer who identifies as a man is transgender and cissexual, but not cisgender.
Unfortunately others use the word cisgender to identify those that are not transsexual, which I guess is the reason you are confused.
If we stick to the different meanings of the words transgender and transsexual, the content of the words cisgender and cissexual are automatically given. Cisgender means those who remain when you have removed transgender people from your set. Cissexual means those who are left behind when you have removed transsexual men and women.
The word trans is an abbreviation of transgender. Following this logic cis should refer to transgender, and not to transsexual.
Many people seek comfort in strict stereotypes, and they do their best to police others who do not share their prejudices.
A very efficient way of forcing others to adhere to whatever is considered “self-evident” in a society is to negate or invalidate the lives of those who fall outside these norms.These tactics are used against women, people from other cultures, the disabled, homosexuals and transgender.
The Norwegian psychologist and philosopher Ingjald Nissen established the concept of Master Suppression Techniques, which were further developed by the feminist and social psychogist Berit Ås.
What they found was that there are a lot of subtle and manipulative techniques and strategies that can be used by those in power to invalidate the identity and views of those marginalized.
Ås pointed out that men often marginalize women by
Ignoring or silencing them
Making fun of them
Keeping them out of the information loop
Punishing or otherwise belittle the actions of a person, regardless of how they act (double bind)
Embarrassing them, or by insinuating that they are themselves to blame for their position
Discussing the appearance of someone in a situation where it is clearly irrelevant
Threatening with – or using – one’s physical strength
As trans activist Julia Serano has pointed out in her book Excluded, there are many ways of invalidating people, transgender and genderqueer included:
Claiming that you are mentally ill or incompetent.
Sexualizing. People of color are for instance often depicted as being exotic, promiscuous or sexually predatory.
Accusing you of being immoral, like in “homosexuals are out to deceive straight people”.
Claiming that you are sick or contagious (Like in: “One drop of Jewish blood is enough to make you a dirty Jew!”).
Arguing that some type of body or behavior is anomalous or even “unnatural”. (Homosexuality is for instance often considered “unnatural”, even if same-sex relationships are common in nature).
You are accused of being inauthentic or fake (like in “You are not a woman. You are just a male rapist in an ugly dress!”)
Claiming that you and those who like you are suffering from a fetish (like in: “He does not really love you; he just has a fetish for fat people”.)
It is truly fascinating to see how people who would never consider using these techniques against some marginalized groups have no qualms about using them against others.
In the essential study The History of White People Dr.Nell Irvin Painter describes how Irish immigrants to the US – who were originally labelled racial inferior by American scientists – felt no qualms about using the same invalidation tactics against African-Americans after having gained access to the Anglo-Saxon family.
I suspect many took the anger caused by those harassing them out on those further down on the racial pecking order. Moreover, now that they were on the inside, they felt free to express the darker side of their psyche. In other words: hatred breeds hatred breeds hatred in a never-ending cycle of violence.
These days this kind of negation causes a tremendous amount of suffering among transgender, transsexual and genderqueer people, as it makes it extremely hard for many of them to gain respect for their true identity.
If you think people without sex dysphoria are trans, you might want to go back and think for a while on what transgender actually means.
Yes, let us do that, shall we.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH, often uses the phrase “transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people” when presenting their area of responsibility. The
“Adjective to describe a diverse group of individuals who cross or transcend culturally defined categories of gender. The gender identity of transgender people differs to varying degrees from the sex they were assigned at birth”
I guess some would argue that this definition requires some kind of alternative fundamental gender identity, but I am not convinced. In any case this association, who has the word “transgender” in its name, also covers other “nonconforming” people.
“Transgender” is an umbrella term used by people in a number of different groups, including but not limited to cross-dressers (those who wear clothing of the other sex some of the time) to genderqueer people (those who feel that they belong to either both genders or neither gender) and transsexuals (an older term for people who take hormones and have sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in order to transition to a different sex.“
"Trans and transgender are terms that are used to describe people who don’t conform to the traditional division of male and female.
Trans embraces many different types of people and lifestyles, including
People who cross-dress (transvestite people). These people sometimes wear the clothing of the opposite sex, but don’t want to live full-time as a member of the opposite sex.
People who feel that they’re both male and female, or neither male nor female.
Drag queens, drag kings and other people who don’t appear conventionally masculine or feminine.
Transsexual people. These are people who have a strong and constant desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. Many transsexual people have gender reassignment treatment to make their appearance more consistent with their preferred gender. This often involves hormone therapy and surgery.”
Dictionaries
What about the major dictionaries?
Merriam-Webster can be interpreted both ways, as it defines transgender as
“of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person’s sex at birth.”
But since it includes transvestites,and argues that it is enough to express (as opposed to “identify with”) a different gender identity, it cannot be used to exclude non-transsexual gender variant people.
“denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender.”
The DSM-5
I know that many truscum transsexual separatist have gone to the current edition of the American Psychiatric Manual to find support for their idea that “trans” and “transgender” mean the same as “transsexual”.
Note that the DSM is the manual that until last year labelled trans women as mentally ill and that still stigmatizes crossdressers as perverts.
The DSM-5 makes use of a terminology that may be interpreted to mean that transgender equals transsexual. Careful reading, however, tells us that this is not so.
The DSM-5 says that “Transgender refers to the broad specter of individuals who transiently or persistently identify with a gender different from their natal gender."
Transiently means "not permanent”. “Gender different from their natal gender” includes all possible gender identities, as described by the manual, not only male or female. In the DSM-5 transgender is therefore a much broader term than “transsexual”, which requires transitioning from male to female or female to male.
In spite of what many truscum believes, the DSM-5 does not require someone to suffer from gender dysphoria to be considered transgender. The manual explicitly states that not all individuals feel distress from gender incongruence.
Moreover, the new edition of the DSM explicitly states that being diagnosed as having a “transvestic disorder” does not stop you from being diagnosed as having gender dysphoria.
The medical establishment clearly think of “transgender” as a broad umbrella term. But ultimately it is not they who decide who is to be called transgender. Transgender is a term that has been developed by the transgender community, which for the last 30 years or so has included all kinds of gender variant people.
The trans historian Cristan Williams has done extensive research on the development of terms like trans, transgender and transsexual and found that by the mid-1970s, the term “trans” was used as an umbrella term to describe all crossdressers and/or transsexuals. It is still used this way.
But for it to make sense to them, however, the new generation of transsexual separatists must keep in mind that she is responding to a different kind of separatists, the so-called “classical transsexuals” or the “Harry Benjamine Syndrome” tribe.
The “classic transsexuals” have, ironically, spent an insane amount of time trying to prove that they are not “transgender”, as they believe the word was created by perverted crossdressers trying to appropriate their narrative. (It wasn’t). In other words: For them “transgender” is a slur.
This bizarre contradiction does in itself indicate that the truscum appropriation of the term “transgender” is not about facts, but about redefining language to their own liking.
