Email received today:

So it just came down the wire that the APA announced on May 1st it's
work groups for the new DSM-V. This includes the team who will review
the "Gender Identity Disorder" criteria and ultimately make a determination
if GID should stay in the DSM.

OF GREAT CONCERN!

I am highly troubled that the naming of the committee includes two of
the most staunchly neo-eugenic figures from Toronto's notorious Jurassic
Clark. Kenneth Zucker (who will be acting as chair) and Ray Blanchard.
Blanchard was the original writer of the theory of "Autogynophelia", and
Zucker is an adamant proponent of "repairative therapy" for gender
non-conforming
young people.

Action is needed immediately. People need to start to sound the alarms
and raise red flags about the inappropriate choices that the APA has made.
While some of the other member of the committee are known and progressive
thinkers in regards to GID such as Peggy Cohen-Kettenis and Niklas Långström
I am unfamiliar with many of the other names of the committee members.

I would urge everyone to review the APAs press release of the committee they
have appointed, and start to gather information to begin a widespread lobbying
effort. The APA held its annual meeting over this last week, and no doubt that
many of these committee members are already getting together to start
formulating
their work plan.
You can read the APA's press release here:
http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2008NewsReleases/dsm...

This is scary. The next step could be to reclassify homosexuality as a mental disorder needing "reparative therapy."