All psychiatric diagnoses occur within a cultural context. We know there is a whole community of people out there who are not seeking medical attention and live between the two binary categories (of male and female.) We wanted to send the message that the therapist’s job isn’t to pathologize.
– New York psychiatrist Jack Drescher, as quoted by Lisa Leff of the Associated Press in her article Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms July 21, 2012
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