title: LGBTQs and the DSM-5: a critical queer response.
abstract: This article outlines a community-based collaboration in Toronto, Canada that led to an official response to the APA's call for comments and suggestions regarding diagnostic criteria revisions for the DSM-5 with a focus on disorders that have or may have an impact on the lives of LGBTQ people. We identified two diagnostic categories: gender dysphoria and paraphilias. The diagnostic categories and their respective disorders are deconstructed utilizing a critical queer analysis with recommendations for change. In addition, we explore the limitations of the APA review process itself and politics within the APA and the LGBTQ communities.
authors: a School of Social Work , York University , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Daley
authors: Nick J
authors: NJ
authors: Mulé
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: DSM; LGBT; pathology; queer; sexual minority