Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

The doctor thought Tatiana Arena-Villareal’s sexuality was a medical problem. In 2021.

One of the key elements to winning marriage equality was UCLA psychologist Evelyn Hooker’s groundbreaking study published in 1957.

The WHO declassified “gender incongruence” from their list of mental disorders.

This is huge.

“The terminology is difficult because nobody likes anything….we could call this ‘happy unicorns dancing by the edge of the stream’ and there’d be an objection to it.”

Dr. Robert Spitzer — a psychiatrist who played a leading role in establishing agreed-upon standards to describe mental disorders and eliminating homosexuality’s designation as a pathology — died Friday in Seattle.

LOS ANGELES — A California man las filed a lawsuit against his doctor and a Southern California healthcare network, saying they ignored his request to remove a notation from his medial records describing “homosexual behavior” as a “chronic problem.” KNBC-TV reports that Matthew Moore, 46, who is openly gay, said he was shocked to see his sexual orientation …

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Psychiatric Association has voted to eliminate the term “gender identity disorder” and replace it with “gender dysphoria” when diagnosing people who are transgender.