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Protest the APA and Gender Identity Disorder!
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Date:
Monday, May 18, 2009
Time:
6:00 PM
-
7:30 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Danielle Askini
Email:
Address:
1550 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Location Details:
At the corner of 4th and Howard Street in front of the Moscone Center.
Protesters call for Reform of Gender Disorders at American Psychiatric Association Convention
What: A coalition of transgender community advocates and mental health providers will gather in San Francisco May 18 to protest how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is handling revisions to “gender identity disorder” and related diagnoses in their fifth edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-V).
When: Monday May 18th Protest starts at 6:00pm,
Where: At the corner of 4th and Howard Street, San Francisco –Outside the Moscone Center
Who: A coalition of medical and therapeutic professionals, gender-variant, transgender people, community members, and allies working under the name GIDreformNOW who have grave concerns about the current diagnostic classification and lack of disclosure by the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group about plans for the DSM-V.
Key leaders and advocates for Transgender civil rights will be present to speak, they include Julia Serano, PhD; Madeline Deutsch, MD; Masen Davis, MSW; Kelley Winters, PhD; Danielle Askini, MSW; Mara Keisling; Andrea James, MA; Lore Dickey, PhD; Michele Angello, PhD; and Rebecca Allison, MD.
All are welcome to attend!
What: A coalition of transgender community advocates and mental health providers will gather in San Francisco May 18 to protest how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is handling revisions to “gender identity disorder” and related diagnoses in their fifth edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-V).
When: Monday May 18th Protest starts at 6:00pm,
Where: At the corner of 4th and Howard Street, San Francisco –Outside the Moscone Center
Who: A coalition of medical and therapeutic professionals, gender-variant, transgender people, community members, and allies working under the name GIDreformNOW who have grave concerns about the current diagnostic classification and lack of disclosure by the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group about plans for the DSM-V.
Key leaders and advocates for Transgender civil rights will be present to speak, they include Julia Serano, PhD; Madeline Deutsch, MD; Masen Davis, MSW; Kelley Winters, PhD; Danielle Askini, MSW; Mara Keisling; Andrea James, MA; Lore Dickey, PhD; Michele Angello, PhD; and Rebecca Allison, MD.
All are welcome to attend!
For more information:
http://www.gidreformnow.com
Added to the calendar on Fri, May 15, 2009 3:33PM
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i am down with this but i really want to raise the idea of creating community mental health structures as part of an attack on capitalist mind control as a whole, genderqueeritude isnt the only form of resistance it pathologizes yo!
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