27-09-2011, 01:37 PM
Just read this on Lawrence's website
"Does the desire for sex reassignment in autogynephilic MtF transsexuals represent a mental disorder? I contend that it does. To meaningfully address the question, one must attempt to define the term mental disorder, ... According to Wakefield and First, a mental disorder is "a 'harmful mental dysfunction,' with harm being determined by social values and the word dysfunction referring to the failure of a mental mechanism to perform its natural (i.e., evolutionarily selected) function" "
http://www.annelawrence.com/desire_for_sr_a_mental_disorder.html
Hmmm... I am glad she is not my doctor.
Beverley
"Does the desire for sex reassignment in autogynephilic MtF transsexuals represent a mental disorder? I contend that it does. To meaningfully address the question, one must attempt to define the term mental disorder, ... According to Wakefield and First, a mental disorder is "a 'harmful mental dysfunction,' with harm being determined by social values and the word dysfunction referring to the failure of a mental mechanism to perform its natural (i.e., evolutionarily selected) function" "
http://www.annelawrence.com/desire_for_sr_a_mental_disorder.html
Hmmm... I am glad she is not my doctor.
Beverley