GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

My Diagnoses are condition post genital surgery (Z 98.8) and hormonal disorder (F 34.9).

If only it were so!

If only transsexualism were not treated as an exception, and thus transwomen were prescribed estrogen by their GPs instead of being referred to have their minds subjected to iatrogenesis.

I never had a diagnosis. If I tried to get one I probably wouldn't still be running around outside an asylum but it wouln't be for gender issues - lol.

Well, that's the way it kinda is in America, so it seemed to me. Any mind being subjected to "whatever that word above means" seems to be on a voluntary basis.

As Holly is originally from England, she still has the scars of torturous abuse at the hands of the maniacs. I empathise and sympathise...and I totally get it. So, I don't yawn.

That's due to our wonderful cloaking abilities. The government is working feverishly on counter measures.

It should not make any difference as far as insurance coverage is concerned--in a perfect world. The problem many have with removing it is because of the question of coverage. However, the point should not be to get coverage by being diagnosed with a "mental illness," but to get coverage as would anyone else with a medical difficulty, whether it is cancer or the flu.

Michelle

I need a diagnosis of GID in order to acquire prescription and monitoring for the HRT. If GID were out of the DSM, then the SOC would have to be altered, or a different diagnosis would need to exist to justify the distribution of the hormones.

So, I say, leave it in. There is a stigma, we have dealt with it (for better and worse) and will continue to do so. The real test of acceptance is with my wife and children and from those who allow me to work for them so that I can pay my own way in life.

-Kennedy.

The diagnosis people need to obtain treatment is something very different from the DSM GID diagnosis, which does not, and has not, helped people obtain physical medical treatment, or insurance company acceptance of physical medical treatments for the condition from which you suffer.

What needs to exist is a physical condition diagnosis in the section of the ICD-9 medical diagnostic code book for birth anomalies.

You are not mentally ill, and neither you, nor anyone else with the misconception that GID should stay in the DSM, or needs to be so classified by the medical professional, or worse, by right wing politicians who misuse the DSM GID diagnosis as a way to declare our entire population nuts.

The well informed position to take on this is to support and lobby for a physical, congenital, medical condition diagnostic code within the ICD-9 medical diagnostic code book, classified along with other physical conditions like Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome and Hermaphroditic/Intersex conditions in the ICD-9, which would better afford patients acceptance for physical medical treatments for a physical condition which is not a mental illness and does not belong in the DSM.

Well that could be good news. I don't know if they will actually take it out of the DSM 5. But who knows it could happen?

I suspect that the insurance companies will do their best to remove GID from the DSM V. That is because come 2010 any company with over 50 employees has to cover mental conditions as well as physical conditions or drop coverage altogether.

This is the USA. If you want to know why something is occurring, follow the money.