DSM diagnoses incorporated into future questionnaires?
Fragment of a discussion from Course talk:PSYC305/2013ST2/ClassProject/5.5 Discussion - Future Research
Kevin, I think you touch base in a very important and valid point: the medicalization of the genders, and I agree with you in the importance of exercising caution while interpreting the DSM.
As it was the case with homosexuality being categorized as a disorder (and now a days being more recognized as another sexual orientation), there could be many other orientations which are overlooked or categorized as disorders, because as a society, we are not ready to accept them for economic, political and religious reasons, for example.
NoraReynoso (talk)