Trans Rights Disaster

First a little background:

The controversy surrounding gender identity disorder is no news to most transsexuals, but for the rest of you, heresDented Blue Mercedes on Destigmatization versus access to medical cover.

So the news has broken that there is a new panel who are to discuss GID’s inclusion in the DSM-V.

More info from people who know more about it and say it better than I do:
Dented Blue Mercedes
Burning Words

There is a strong chance that the people that have been selected to run this investigation of Gender will find that transition is a negative outcome, and that ‘raparative therapy’ (that is transsexualities equivalent of ex-gay brainwashing) is a better approach for treating us.

Now, the DSM-V effects every gender variant person in the western world… INCLUDING cissexual gays and lesbians. No matter where you are in the west, our medical model of transsexuality is underpinned with the APA’s diagnosis of GID. Our legal rights, access to hormones, and surgery all rely on this document.

Please, please link to this post, or link to Bec or Mercedes’ posts on the matter. Pass along the word to trans people, and allies. Post it to e-lists. Phone people.
This is cause for an international protest movement. I am willing to put up my hand to organise the Canberra branch, but this needs to go global. There needs to be out rage.

We cannot take this lying down.