WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Dsm-5

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

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3: an acceping approach to gender ambiguity has not been prevalent in the western world where binary rules. 11: not an elevated place - they are perceived as somewhat discredited, associated with fallen women, prositutes, marginals. 3: experimentaion is not uncommon with respect to gender; cross dressing, playing with toys and games associated with the opposite" sex, etc. 3: in the dsm iv the american psychiatric associaion presents several components of what it calls gender idenity disorder" (homosexuality not removed as a psychiatric problem" unil 1973). 1: not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex but evidence of a persistent discomfort about one"s biologically assigned sex. Cbc doc zone: transforming gender : note the ways in which some of those interviewed describe their self-idenity & their gender idenity. Why is this important to us as students of gender studies: what is the status of understanding trans in the medical community? (teaching, learning, etc).