Transgender woman Deidre McCloskey, an economics professor at the University of Illinois and well-known transgender activist, was committed twice to mental hospitals for her gender-variant behavior in the mid-1990s. She feels strongly that the appointment of the CAMH researchers is unjust.
“I regard the new DSM’s committee and its recommendations as a coup by a radical wing of the sexology community against reason. It is a throwback to the era before 1973 in which homosexuality … was considered a sickness by the APA,” McCloskey said.
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She said she is “astonished that in the face of a more than a 1,000-person petition against the new [Work Group] and its slanted composition, the APA chose to go along with the reactionaries.” …
In fact the petition calling for the removal of Drs. Zucker and Blanchard had over 11,000 signatures, not 1,000. That is more than one fourth of the entire membership of the APA. … comment by HenryHall
