title: Where Christ did not go: men, women and Frusculicchi. Gender identity disorder (GID): epistemological and ethical issues relating to the psychiatric diagnosis.
abstract: Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is classified as a mental illness and included in the DSM-IV and ICD-1O. It will also be included in the DSM-V. The psychiatric diagnosis, in spite of some apparent advantages, has significant psychological and social adverse implications. This paper discusses some of the main epistemological reasons to consider gender variance as a mental disorder. It will also evaluate whether reasons of other kinds (pragmatic, rather than epistemological) may justify the inclusion of gender variance amongst mental illnesses.
authors.affiliation: Simona Giordano, University of Manchester.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giordano
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics*; D011640:Public Policy; D012934:Social Isolation; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology