Question

The changes to the DSM regarding the transgender community are still seen as controversial. Please find information (and think about) about the pros and cons of including gender dysphoria in the current DSM. Why include it? Why are some people for this and why are some people against this?

Now that you have researched these issues, it is important to start forming your own opinion of current debates. Do you think Gender Dysphoria should be included in the current (and future) DSM? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Gender dysphoria DSM 5 is the new term to gender identity disorder . Yes, I think gender dysphoria should be included in the current DSM because people who find their sex different from the one which is accepted in society need some identify to define them . They also are human being , same as everyone but the only difference is on the basis of sex.

If the society accept them as normal they even don't need to be described as one of the pathology . It's still a stigma in the society to have a transgender. Untill this stigma is removed , they need a safe identify for this its better to be known as a disease

Our legal authority has established separate sex column as trans gender in every field so that they can also learn ,and work in any field but until the cultural stigma is removed all these is just as there is no existence of any rights for these transgender.

For future , it depends upon the scenario that time persist in the society against transgender. Accordingly action will be taken whether they need any support or by that time transgender will gain a self identify.