Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids

UPDATE: This article was updated to respond to spurious recommendations from the Florida Department of Health, which assert the same debunked claims this article fact-checks. Having learned that the mainstream publication The Atlantic has paid professional anti-trans concern troll Jesse Singal to write about trans issues, I want to address his well-worn arguments before he can make them. To do so, I will assert and then substantiate a few things: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV Gender Identity Disorder (GID) diagnosis is critically flawed and has harmed people. A DSM-5 Gender Dysphoria (GD) diagnosis is very different from the DSM-IV concept of GID. Pretending that DSM-IV GID research directly applies to those with a DSM-5 GD diagnosis is irrational and harmful. Jesse Singal has enjoyed a great deal of support from anti-trans groups including those of the political right, the alt-right, and a small fraction of

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