According to this article on CNN’s website, “The American Psychological Association concluded Wednesday that there is little evidence that efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation from gay or lesbian to heterosexual are effective.” The article itself points out that the APA has not considered homosexuality a mental illness since 1975, but apparently a task [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transsexuality’
From the “About Time” folder
Posted in cultural commentary, news/politics, tagged Alan Chambers, APA, CNN, DSM, Exodus International, gender, homosexuality, mental illness, science, transsexuality on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Sing the Body Electric (and complicated)
Posted in cultural commentary, tagged gender, Helen Boyd, transsexuality on August 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »
My friend Dana, over at Mombian, sent me a lovely article by Helen Boyd, called “When my husband became a woman, I realized I was a sexist” (Boyd has a really smart blog too, enGender). Reading her article motivated me to write something I’ve been mulling over for weeks now (since we started the blog [...]
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