Why The Drive For Medical Transition Should Be Re-Psychopathologized (#42)

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🚨 15 years after WPATH's 2010 de-psychopathologization campaign, Genspect launches the counter-campaign to restore psychiatric safeguards Mia Hughes and Stella O'Malley explain why recognizing the drive for extreme body modification as pathological is the most compassionate, evidence-based response to protect vulnerable youth from the harms of WPATH's de-psychopathologization. The Critical Distinction: A teen exploring trans identity? Not pathological. A teen obsessively fixated on removing healthy body parts, pursuing lifelong medicalization, destroying their endocrine system? That's pathological behavior requiring mental health support—not celebration and scalpels. "You could develop a trans identity and not want any medical interventions. And arguably your behavior is not yet pathological. It's when you're going into actual harmful medical interventions that are going to harm your body. Now your behavior is pathological." - Stella O'Malley What Happened: In 2010, WPATH's de-psychopathologization campaign declared trans identities "natural and healthy," dismantled all psychiatric guardrails, and triggered a social contagion among youth. By 2013, the DSM-5 replaced "Gender Identity Disorder" with "Gender Dysphoria"—the identity was now healthy, only the distress was pathological. By 2018, the WHO's ICD-11 went further, moving it entirely out of mental health into "conditions related to sexual health." The result? Kids started falling into an ideological abyss with no safeguards to catch them. Campaign Resources: 🎯 Campaign Hub: https://genspect.org/re-psychopathologization-campaign/ 📋 Official Statement: https://genspect.org/genspect-calls-for-re-psychopathologization-of-transgender-identification/ 📋 Campaign FAQs: https://genspect.org/faqs-re-psychopathologization-of-transgender-identities/ 📋 Clarification Statement: https://genspect.org/statement-on-the-use-of-the-term-re-psychopathologization/ 🎬 Mia's Conference Talk - "The Upstream Battle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8uBdSoQCKQ 📝 FULL SHOW NOTES with comprehensive references and timeline: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/why-the-drive-for-medical-transition Key Historical Sources Referenced: 📋 WPATH 2010 De-Psychopathologization Statement: https://tgmentalhealth.com/2010/05/26/wpath-releases-de-psychopathologisation-statement-on-gender-variance/ 📋 DSM-5 Gender Dysphoria (APA): https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/diversity/education/transgender-and-gender-nonconforming-patients/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis 📋 WHO ICD-11 Gender Incongruence: https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd 📋 Carl Wernicke's "Extreme Overvalued Belief": https://jaapl.org/content/early/2019/05/13/JAAPL.003847-19 📋 Johns Hopkins Clinic Closure (Archival Research, 2022): https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-1480 📋 STAT News: "History is Repeating Itself": https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/03/gender-affirming-surgery-hospitals-johns-hopkins/ 📋 Ray Blanchard on Autogynephilia (Quillette Interview): https://quillette.com/2019/11/06/what-is-autogynephilia-an-interview-with-dr-ray-blanchard/ 📋 WPATH Standards of Care Version 7 (2012): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2011.700873 📋 WPATH Standards of Care Version 8 (2022): https://wpath.org/publications/soc8/ Key Books Discussed: 📖 Tahir Rahman & James Abugel - Extreme Overvalued Beliefs: Clinical and Forensic Psychiatric Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 2024): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extreme-overvalued-beliefs-tahir-rahman/1145613969 📖 Paul McHugh - Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind (Dana Press, 2008): https://www.amazon.com/Try-Remember-Psychiatrys-Meaning-Memory/dp/1932594396 📖 Jamison Green - Becoming a Visible Man (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) 📖 Terry Goldie - The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money (UBC Press, 2014): https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-man-who-invented-gender 📖 John Colapinto - As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (HarperCollins, 2000) Contact Genspect: Media: [email protected] | General: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💬 What did you think of this episode? Let us know in the comments! 🔔 Subscribe so you don’t miss what’s coming next! 📢 If this episode made you think, share it with a friend! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #transgender #genderideology #WPATH #medicaltransition #mentalhealth #genspect #genderdysphoria #youthprotection #detransition #genderaffirmingcare #repathologization #DSM5 #extremeovervaluedbeliefs