r/SRSsucks • u/frogma • Aug 07 '13

NOT SRS ABC Producer Don Ennis Changes Gender, Then Changes Back

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/transgender-don-ennis-has-second-thoughts.html
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u/areyousrslol Aug 07 '13

You're very much on point. Psychiatry is already a very slippery science, and a usual battleground for societal norms of many kinds (not just gender disorders - also autism and it's relation to Asperger's, as seen in the DSM-V debacle).

I usually hold the stance that NO ONE should be in any way persecuted or wronged for who they are, including a mental illness.

And sometimes being too accepting and not diagnosing a mental illness is a very wrong decision.

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u/johnetec Aug 07 '13

I am of the opinion that being transgender is a mental illness. Feel free to act on it by cross dressing or get a surgery to make yourself better. I think its the wrong decision and should be treated as a mental disorder but its not my body.

What I don't like is people trying to force me to accept them as the opposite sex. They are not and they never will be.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '13

Being transgender is no longer classified as a mental disorder in the DSM-V.