I Hate Reading About Masculinity
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelI can write a lot of things into the seminar paper I'm (ostensibly) working on, but I don't think I can get away with making the argument that psychiatry speciously groups together homosexuality, male bisexuality, female gender dysphoria, and straight male crossdressing -- merely because all of these are equally threatening to the modern conception of heterosexual masculinity.
Snippet behind the cut.
It is impossible to separate the history of the societal treatment of gender identity from the subject of sexual orientation. It is no coincidence that the APA's decision to stop recognizing the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973 was accepted in close proximity to the addition of gender identity disorder in childhood to the third version of the DSM. The primary foundation behind the definition of this disorder was the claim that cross-gender behavior in childhood is a predictive factor of adult homosexuality or bisexuality.
Snippet behind the cut.
It is impossible to separate the history of the societal treatment of gender identity from the subject of sexual orientation. It is no coincidence that the APA's decision to stop recognizing the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973 was accepted in close proximity to the addition of gender identity disorder in childhood to the third version of the DSM. The primary foundation behind the definition of this disorder was the claim that cross-gender behavior in childhood is a predictive factor of adult homosexuality or bisexuality.
