Which group, besides furries, is the most discrimianted against throughout the entire world (in the present day)?

[Aeson]

I'm going to let that misspelling stand, as it's a better result than the one I intended ...

[Ben Kenobi]

Thanks captain obvious. Now answer the question or I'm just going to have to assume your balls were cut off by a rouge psychiatrist.

Well, I'm afraid I haven't watched, "The Devil Wears Prada" so I don't know much about rouge psychiatrists.

If watching a Star Trek TNG marathon is just as helpful as chopping off your dick, perhaps psychiatrists should prescribe more Picard. "Make it so!"

[Uncle Sparky]

"The Devil Wears Prada" is hilarious, but if you are unsure of your sexuality, maybe you shouldn't watch it.

[MRT144]

Psychiatry and psychology are bull**** professions in this day and age, full of morons who can't do statistics and morons who are more into political correctness than scientific correctness.

I suspect there are a small handful of people in that community that aren't hacks, emphasis on small.

You oscillate between 18 and 81 in your petty bitterness.

[DinoDoc]

Not the one that is just being released.

It's still listed as a disorder. They've simply removed the label "gender identity disorder" and replaced it with "Gender dysphoria" as it the GID label was seen as stigmatizing to the He/She community. But it is still listed as a disorder otherwise insurance would never cover invasive surgery for people to pretend to by something they aren't.

[Egbert]

As someone with a LEGITIMATE, and documented, mental illness I can say that yes there are lots of quacks in the mental health Profession...

and Plenty of those who are not. The rest of the "deBate" here is meaningless draBBle brought on by Poasters Boaredom.

AAHZ is right.

[Egbert]

Psychiatry and psychology are bull**** professions in this day and age, full of morons who can't do statistics and morons who are more into political correctness than scientific correctness.

I suspect there are a small handful of people in that community that aren't hacks, emphasis on small.

/begin patronising attitude

One day you will learn that statistics are not the answer to everything.

/end patronising attitude

[dannubis]

Psychiatry and psychology are bull**** professions in this day and age, full of morons who can't do statistics and morons who are more into political correctness than scientific correctness.

I suspect there are a small handful of people in that community that aren't hacks, emphasis on small.

Education by television

[Elok]

taking chemistry terms and appropriating them for gender identity is great. I will hear nothing else on the matter.

It's a largely unnecessary term; the vast, vast majority of people are not transgendered, so we could get on fine with "non-TG." If you seriously need a specialized term to refer to the non-TG, well, that implies that you spend a good deal of time musing on the differences between the TG and non-TG, etc. As the chief distinction between the two is obvious (and so major as to make any other differences irrelevant), that's a pretty trivial subject to muse on--unless you have some sort of political axe to grind, or have built up a career yammering on about it. In which case, words like "cisgender" (not to mention "heteronormative") help you sound like you're actually an expert on something.

We also don't need special words meaning "having two arms" or "non-lisping." Or "neurotypical," for that matter. My ego can take it if we just call them "normal," and save three syllables.

[self biased]

I get what you're saying, elok, but Ben's already agreed with you and you'be got s ****ty point. Just because the term cisgender makes you feel uncomfortable is no reason for it to not exist. "Normal" is a pretty vague term these days.

[giblets]

"Normal" probably sounds too normative to some people, I guess.

[Elok]

I said nothing about discomfort. Only about relevance and necessity. The term has no purpose but to make heavily politicized vapor (or breathtakingly obvious statements) sound technical and "smart."

[Tuberski]

A bot is doing a Tuberski!

Not on my watch.

ACK!

[Hauldren Collider]

"Normal" probably sounds too normative to some people, I guess.

Tough.

It's still listed as a disorder. They've simply removed the label "gender identity disorder" and replaced it with "Gender dysphoria" as it the GID label was seen as stigmatizing to the He/She community. But it is still listed as a disorder otherwise insurance would never cover invasive surgery for people to pretend to by something they aren't.

Exactly.

[Hauldren Collider]

Right, all this nonsense about sexual reassignment surgery is for political gain. It all helps Obama, somehow. Certainly the psychiatrists couldn't possibly be relying on their experience with people with gender dysphoria to reach their conclusions.

I don't think you understood my meaning when I said "politically motivated". They're not trying to drum up democratic votes. They have an axe to grind about tranny discrimination, and so have an agency problem when it comes to the question of "should I get transexual surgery".