A psychiatrist in Russia proposed reviving a debunked diagnosis called “transgender spectrum disorder,” claiming that being trans is a mental disorder. The proposed umbrella was said to include “homosexualism” and a range of other conditions, including fetishistic transvestism, personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, and “schizophrenia combined with periodic effemination.” The psychiatrist described recent increases in people identifying as trans as a “transgender epidemic,” attributing it to “financial infusions and grants.” The proposal also framed trans rights advancement as driven by a “fifth column of medicine,” involving trans-friendly doctors, psychologists, and lecturers. Standard healthcare does not recognize transgender as a mental illness, and only gender dysphoria is diagnosable.
"Olga Bukhanovskaya, the chief physician of the Phoenix rehabilitation and treatment research centre, presented a paper on the topic at the 18th Congress of Psychiatrists in Russia this week. Bukhanovskaya argued that being trans is a mental disorder which also includes "homosexualism", reported Meduza on 26 May. She also said that the "transgender umbrella" encompasses "fetishistic transvestism", personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, and "schizophrenia combined with periodic effemination"."
"She called the rise in people identifying as trans in recent years a "transgender epidemic", saying that it is caused by "financial infusions and grants". Speaking at the congress, she said: "If people now use the nice-sounding phrase 'autism spectrum disorder,' then we can say 'transgender spectrum disorder,' and all of these mental illnesses fall under it.""
"Bukhanovskaya also presented the theory that the advancement of trans rights in Russia is carried out by a "fifth column of medicine", referring to trans-friendly doctors, psychologists and lecturers. She noted that she believes that trans-friendly lecturers are responsible for "promoting gender theory and ICD-11 [the International Classification of Diseases] into the professional community, society, and the minds of patients.""
"'Transgender spectrum disorder' is not a recognised medical diagnosis as being trans is not considered to be a mental illness in standard healthcare. Only gender dysphoria, or the distress experienced by some people at a disparity between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth, is a diagnosable condition. Being transgender stopped being classified as a mental health condition by the World Health Organisatio"
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