Scaremongering
Dr. Marshall Forstein, Chair of the Work Group on Practices Guidelines on HIV Psychiatry for the American Psychiatric Association (not to be confused with the American Psychological Association), has written a reply to the drive to have Drs. Kenneth Zucker and Ray Blanchard removed from the Work Group developing the revisions for “Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders” for the planned DSM-V. In it, he writes: “I hope that what I have written makes us pause a bit before we do something to alienate even our supporters and friends in the American Psychiatric and the American Psychological Association who have been very pro-gay and pro-trans in their deliberations so far. There will always be a vocal minority that claim otherwise, but the process is vetted by many people committed to scientific integrity and evidence.” I and others have been accused of scaremongering in the ongoing debate(s) surrounding this issue. Dr. Forstein
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Scaremongering” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning healthcare and medicine. Published in 2008 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
“Scaremongering” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with healthcare and medicine. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.
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Themes
- 1Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community83%
- 3Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication65%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community30%
- 5Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community27%
- 6Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life13%
Academic framing
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- 317%
- 47%
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How “Healthcare and medicine” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveMercedes Allen responds to accusations of scaremongering « TRANScend GENDER
[...] Posted on May 19, 2008 by Khyri On a post to her personal blog, and cross-posted to Bilerico and Transadvocate, Mercedes Allen reflects on the responses to her original Uh-oh post, including several that have [...]
Still mad: more on DSM-V/Zucker/Blanchard « bird of paradox
[...] Scaremongering - Posted by Mercedes Allen at Transadvocate [...]
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