{"id":8665,"date":"2017-07-23T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2017-07-23T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:44:19","slug":"how-the-left-hijacked-the-american-psychiatric-association-and-normalized-personality-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-the-left-hijacked-the-american-psychiatric-association-and-normalized-personality-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image credit: APA Removes Transgenderism as ‘Mental Illness’<\/em> — http:\/\/progressph.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/apa-removes-transgenderism-as-mental.html<\/h6>\n

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How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders<\/strong><\/h1>\n

American Thinker<\/strong>
\nby Mark A. Hewitt
\n7\/17\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breitbart:\u00a0 Trump Defense Department Delays Obama\u2019s Transgender Push in the Military<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pentagon is working to delay the July 1 deadline to fully implement the Obama-initiated policy that one year ago lifted the ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the Pentagon directive to allow transgender men and women to join the military faces an indefinite delay this may be a good time to review just how America was ensnared with this Obama-era policy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The evidence is clear\u2014the American Left succeeded in lobbying the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to eliminate some of the sexual identity disorders from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a> (DSM).<\/em><\/p>\n

Most Americans have little knowledge of the DSM, its contents, and its implications.\u00a0 The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and \u201coffers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.\u201d \u00a0It is used, or relied upon, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the legal system, and policy makers.\u00a0 In the United States the DSM serves as a universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses<\/a>.\u00a0 The Department of Defense uses the DSM as its source reference for psychiatric diagnoses and metal disorders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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First published in 1968, DSM-II, Section 3, Part V, listed Personality Disorders and Certain other Non-psychotic Mental Disorders.\u00a0 In this section, homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder<\/a>.\u00a0 Under pressure from the Left and gay-rights groups, the APA compromised, removing homosexuality from the DSM but replacing it with the kinder and gentler descriptor: \u201csexual orientation disturbance\u201d for people \u201cin conflict with\u201d their sexual orientation.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1987 homosexuality was struck from the DSM by a majority vote of the APA members.\u00a0 In 2012, transvestitism, was also eliminated from the DSM-5 (fifth edition), replaced gender identity disorder and further redefined and softened the previous personality disorder into gender dysphoria<\/a>.\u00a0 The change in terminology removed all implication and designation that transvestitism was a mental illness. \u00a0Dysphoria is defined as the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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