(November 21, 2024 at 6:47 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 21, 2024 at 6:15 am)Sheldon Wrote: There is a clear diagnosis for gender dysphoria included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association.
So it's not a purely subjective claim, anymore than someone claiming to be gay is a purely subjective claim, it can be objectively tested, and homosexuality was also classified as a mental disorder until fairly recently, hopefully this will change for gender dysphoria as well, but its existence is objectively evidenced.
Dysphoria is not gender. It's a disorder.
Dear oh dear but you are the king of straw men, where di i remotely claim dysphoria was gender?
Quote:If a psychiatrist wanted to find objective evidence for a person's gender, what would she look for? Is this included in the DSM-5?I am not a psychiatrist, though I imagine the information is freely available of one wanted to find and study it. I'd be stunned to find out the classification was based solely on the subjective claim of the patient though, as you asserted.
