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GidReform.org
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Advocates for Reform of Transgender Psychiatric Classification |
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Associated Youth Services of Peel
Marc Simcox
LGBT Youth Program Coordinator
Mississauga, ON., Canada
Phone: 905 890 9990 EX 267
www.aysp.ca
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We are committed to equity principles and for access to and health care for trans individuals.
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Fundación para la Identidad de Género - FIG (Foundation for Gender Identity)
Andrea Planelles (President)
Olga C. Baselga (Vice-President).
Marina, 166-168. Bajos.
08013 Barcelona, Spain.
(34) 93-245-4515.
www.figinternet.org
Spanish-to-English Translation
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The Fundación para la Identidad de Género - FIG, was created to promote a positive image of transgender / transsexual / intersex persons and thus provide Public Authorities with the knowledge and human resources they require to confront and attend their problems and needs.
GID Reform is central in our thinking. We support the idea that transsexualism should not appear as a disease in DSM-V or ICD-11, since nothing but socio-cultural values and preconceptions could justify it. Considering intersex has never been regarded as a mental disease, and that transsexualism does not differ from intersex as far as Gender Identity is concerned, there are no reasons to treat both conditions differently.
In Spain, given the total inexistence of specific Laws or regulations regarding Gender Identity, we have a unique and historical opportunity to promote and develop a state-of-the-art approach on this issue. We are confident that we will succeed in the making and implementation of an unprecedented clinical protocol and Gender Identity Law, both adapted to Spanish reality and in agreement with the most recent scientific findings about transsexualism as a form of intersex.
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I have struggled with the concept of being diagnosed with gender identity disorder and of the many hours of therapy that I have endured to “treat’ my “disorder” under the auspices of the DSM. I do not consider myself or others like me, as gender confused but rather having taken the steps necessary to live in my chosen gender role. I support the many individuals who are sane, intelligent and articulate professionals that consider their gender identity to also be a life choice rather than a medical disorder. I, therefore, am in total support of GID reform. Together we can illicit change to help those without a voice.
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Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc.
3895 Upham St. Suite 40
Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033
(303) 202-6466
gicofcolo.org
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The GIC of Colorado advocates the
reform of the GID and TF categories to serve a clear therapeutic purpose,
be appropriately inclusive, and define disorder on the basis of distress or
impairment and not upon social nonconformity.
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GenderPAC
Riki Wilchins, Executive Director
1638 R Street, NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20009-6446
202-462-6610
www.gpac.org
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GenderPAC supports the reform of Gender Identity Disorder. By "reform," we
mean the removal entirely of GID as a diagnosis of gender diversity in
children, and it's reform in adults seeking gender-related medical care to
a non-stigmatizing physical medical condition, -- perhaps similar to
pregnancy -- that is treatable and potentially reimbursable but is not a
mental disease.
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Lifelines Rhode Island
Y. Gavriel Ansara, Executive Director
11 South Angell St. #314
Providence, RI 02906
401.369.9680
lifelinesri.org
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Lifelines Rhode Island exists to identify and meet the needs of transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, gender variant, and intersex (TGI) people in Rhode Island. We do this through a combination of advocacy, agency & provider training, community building, workshops, social events, outreach, and support services. We promote full equality and civil rights for people with diverse bodies and genders. This includes both people with binary man/woman gender identities and/or male/female body concepts, as well as people whose gender identities and/or body concepts do not fit within a binary model.
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OII is the largest intersex organisation in the world with members representing almost all known intersex variations. It has members in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. OII provides information and support in several languages worldwide.
OII is in favor of full human rights for all intersex and trans individuals and we fully support the right of the individual to self-identify and have access to all treatments necessary to live as the gender most appropriate to the individual once the child or adult is capable of informed consent. We are proud to be part of the GID reform movement.
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Queers United firmly supports a change to the current DSM policy that seeks to pathologize gender-variant people. We look forward to working with TG organizations and allies to change this policy and get rid of the label "disorder' for transgender individuals.
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TransgenderASIA
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Dr. Sam Winter. Director
c/o Division of Learning, Development and Diversity,
Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam road, Hong Kong, S.A.R.., China
web.hku.hk/~sjwinter/TransgenderASIA
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TransgenderASIA shares the view that transgenderism is simply one aspect of human diversity. It is a difference not a disorder. Transpeople are no more mad than they are bad or sad. While transpeople, like everyone else, may suffer problems of adjustment, those suffered by transpeople most commonly arise out of the intolerance of those around them to their transgenderism. If we can speak of any gender identity disorder at all, it is in the inability of many societies to accept the particular gender identity difference we call transgenderism.
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TransYouth Family Allies is a coalition of parents, friends and caring adults dedicated to educating and raising public awareness about the medical and cultural challenges faced by children with gender variant and gender questioning identities and the families who love them. TYFA supports reform and rethinking of the ‘gender identity disorder’ diagnosis as it appears in the DSM-IV.
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