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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It’s very worrying how the criteria has changed in the last decade or so and it feels like it’s only getting worse. Like, someone who just meets those last two wouldn’t have anything in common with someone like me. I don’t like what had happened since words like transgender starting being used instead of transsexual. It isn’t even about the same thing anymore.

I feel like DSM IV made sense. I don’t see how we can feel the way we do or did towards our bodies and not be considered disordered in some way. Like, I know I’m broken and at peace with that. After I transitioned, I was able to live fairly normal life though and that’s all I really wanted.

[–]catoborosnonbinary 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

DSM-IV-TR Gender Identity Disorder Not Otherwise Specified was a nice home for nonbinary people. I know one senior psychiatrist who prefers the DSM-IV-TR gender categories. That said, DSM-5 Gender Dysphoria made sense to me as a unifying concept. There is still a long way to go to describe the observed range of clinical presentations, and increasingly blurry categories seem to undermine the value of the ontology.