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Objection to DSM-V Committee Members on Gender Identity Disorders
On the Task Force, named as Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Chair, we find Dr. Kenneth Zucker, from Toronto infamous Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH, formerly the Clarke Institute). Dr. Zucker is infamous for utilizing reparative therapy to Ccure gender-variant children.
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Trans activists have expressed concern over appointments to a task force which will oversee revisions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).
The manual lists different categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing them. It is used worldwide by clinicians and researchers, as well as insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers.
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This person believes that gays can be cured.
Zucker, who has been selected to chair the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders working group, is an advocate of reparative ‘ex-gay’ therapy to ‘cure’ gender-variant children.
His views
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Parents are encouraged to set limits on the cross-gender behavior of the child. "We urge them to say, 'Let's figure out what other things you can do besides play with that doll,'" Zucker says. "In some situations, we have to work hard with parents' own issues about gender. Could be a mother who's had difficulty with the men in her life and has a lot of mixed feelings toward men. That gets translated to the boy, and her fear that he'll grow up to be like those men causes him to reject being a boy."
GID treatment can last from one to several years, Zucker says. It ends when the parents feel their goals have been reached (or when the insurance runs out). Success is marked by a lessening of the child's preoccupation with the other gender, cessation of cross-dressing, and the establishment of friendships with a member of the same sex.
This man wants Transgender kids to be REJECTED by their parents.
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September 23, 2004 - Children and adolescents who develop a Gender Identity Disorder (GID) are very often reared in homes where cross-gender behavior is tolerated or encouraged as a "phase," according to Dr. Kenneth Zucker, writing in a recent issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 13 (2004) 551-568.
Here is how the CHILDREN will be TORTURED by Zucker.
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Zucker thinks that an important goal of treatment is to help the children accept their birth sex and to avoid becoming transsexual. His experience has convinced him that if a boy with GID becomes an adolescent with GID, the chances that he will become an adult with GID and seek a sex change are much higher. And he thinks that the kind of therapy he practices helps reduce this risk. Zucker emphasizes a three-pronged treatment approach for boys with GID. First, he thinks that family dynamics play a large role in childhood GID—not necessarily in the origins of cross-gendered behavior, but in their persistence. It is the disordered and chaotic family, according to Zucker, that can’t get its act together to present a consistent and sensible reaction to the child, which would be something like the following: "We love you, but you are a boy, not a girl. Wishing to be a girl will only make you unhappy in the long run, and pretending to be a girl will only make your life around others harder." So the first prong of Zucker’s approach is family therapy. Whatever conflicts or issues that parents have that prevent them from uniting to help their child must be addressed.
The second prong is therapy for the boy, to help him adjust to the idea that he cannot become a girl, and to help teach him how to minimize social ostracism. Zucker does not teach boys how to walk in a manly fashion, but he does give them feedback about the likely consequences of taking a doll to school.
The third prong is key. Zucker says simply: "The Barbies have to go." He has nothing against Barbie dolls, of course. He means something more general. Feminine toys and accoutrements—including Barbie dolls, girls’ shoes, dresses, purses, and princess gowns—are no longer to be tolerated at home, much less bought for the child. Zucker believes that toleration and encouragement of feminine play and dress prevents the child from accepting his maleness. Common sense says that a boy who wants to play with dolls so much that he is willing to risk his father’s wrath and his peers’ scorn is unlikely to change his behavior due to inconsistent feedback, sometimes forbidding, sometimes tolerating, and sometimes even encouraging it. Inconsistent parenting like this is ineffective in stamping out any kind of unwanted behavior.
How many suicides will happen because many Transgender Children will be TORTURED! Help us save Transgender children from the hell that is about to be placed upon them.