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@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 1/ We're fighting to have it removed from psychiatry but there's a complex history. Obviously, after being regarded by other faiths as a bit holy because different, Xtianity regarded it as demonic, so we got massacred/tortured/exorcised/excommunicated. Then, mid-19th century
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 2/…we were thought to be compulsive homosexuals, spreading syphillis, so doctors decided have us criminalised & to lock us away in the new asylums. As psychoanalysts & then psychiatrists arose they tried to "cure" us so we could be released. Eventually they resorted to trying…
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 3/…to wipe our brains with ECT. None of that worked. When homosexuality was removed from the DSM in the 1970s they put us in so they could continue to try. This was directly contrary to the insight of the endocrinologist who, in 1948, upon studying a trans child & her mother,…
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 4/…realised there was a distinct, inborn condition that was incurable except by hormonal & surgical transition - in which the only role for psychiatrists was to rule out conditions impairing ability to medically consent - after which people lived normal, successful lives. The…
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 5/…latest DSM declassifies us from being disordered but - against recommendations - lists us in order to fund counselling. Meanwhile the psychiatrists & psychologists who grabbed control & opened adult gender clinics in countries with health services from the 70s as it became…
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 6/…unacceptable to just lock people away, don't want to lose that & keep insisting to politicians that it is they who are experts, & hungry psychoanalysts, rarely funded by insurance, are even trying to muscle-in again via children because "surely they're too young to know",…
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 7/…"maybe it is child abuse" opens a crack for those devious with words. And courts & human rights bodies list us as as minorities that must not be subject to discrimination, as there must be none "on grounds of birth", of course, since the 1930s/40s must never be repeated.
@PNemeth72 @emceebeere @chiller @goody_kate @OwenJones84 @DadTrans @FierceMum @parislees @AshKSkeet @MavenOfMayhem @JakeGraf1 7/ And elsewhere, where Xtianity didn't erase us? Trans women continued as temple/holy dancers in Hindu & Buddhist temples, & in courts, for hundreds of years, until the British criminalised them in India in 1871, & in SE Asian Buddhist temples until the 1930s.
