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The Science Of Being Transgender

Science Vs

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The Importance of Gender in the Treatment of Trans People

Josh remembers seeing baby boys whose penises hadn't formed properly and more senior doctors would talk to the parents about what to do. Josh says that this standard operating procedure fed into the way that doctors treated trans people too. The DSM in 1980 started labeling trans people as having a mental disorder In fact, they put it under the same heading as pedophilia and bestiality And so trans people would be sent to therapists to be cured Produced out maryl horn asked Josh about this and so what would happen when they went into that counseling the goal of it was basically Get yourself out of it.

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