Peter Boghossian
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Is Trans Identity a Symptom or Mental Health Issue | Genspect
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At the Genspect conference, Peter Boghossian guides writer Meghan Murphy, attorney Erin Friday, author Anita Bartholomew, and psychiatrist Dr. Lauren Schwartz through a live epistemology exercise on whether trans identity should be pathologized, removed from the DSM, treated as a symptom of underlying conditions, or none of the above.
The conversation forces participants to steel-man positions they reject, exposing the conceptual incoherence of "gender dysphoria" as a diagnostic category and raising difficult and complex questions about delusions, subjective sexual preferences, diagnoses, and the purpose of the DSM.
What emerges is not consensus, but genuine belief revision: Minds change in real time when argument, evidence, and reason demand it.
Megan Murphy, Writer and Journalist
Erin Friday, Attorney & Parental Rights Advocate
Anita Bartholomew, Author & Journalist
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Keywords: gender dysphoria DSM, trans identity pathology, street epistemology gender, repathologize transgender, gender incongruence ICD, Peter Boghossian, gender, transgender mental health debate, DSM diagnosis transgender, gender identity disorder, epistemology debate gender
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