pathologised

At the risk of oversimplifying and making sweeping generalisations, TS/TG adults are as reliant on a diagnosis of GID as we are pathologised by it, because healthcare systems around the world require the diagnosis before we can access hormones, surgery, etc.

Looking back, pushing forward 2009

At the risk of oversimplifying and making sweeping generalisations, TS/TG adults are as reliant on a diagnosis of GID as we are pathologised by it, because healthcare systems around the world require the diagnosis before we can access hormones, surgery, etc.

Looking back, pushing forward 2009

Or the “agency” we have in a healthcare system which demands that we submit to being pathologised as “mentally disordered” before it will dispense the medications and surgeries which have been shown countless times to ameliorate a condition which is rooted in how we perceive our identity?

Post-identity feminism and the “problem of agency” 2009

So while the oppressive circumstances faced by people of colour are hyper-analysed, and often pathologised and blamed on the biological 'race' of poc, white privilege (and the history of white oppression) is rendered invisible and ineffable.

White Blogging As Ethnic Blogging 2007

Because Intersex existance physicaly disputes the notion of a sex Binary we are pathologised by those that seek to reinforce it.

Gender - Why Only 2? JLK 2009

Despite no agreement on sex addiction, or concern from the psychiatric and medical professions of sexual behavior being pathologised or misdiagnosed, television researchers are ignoring this evidence and making programs anyway ...

Susie Bright: 2006 Sex Predictions I Wish Wouldn't Come True 2008

No wonder diagnostic manuals get a bad name when behaviour within the normal spectrum even if it is only displayed by a minority of people is pathologised as a 'mental illness'.

Mind Hacks: June 2006 Archives 2006

Despite no agreement on sex addiction, or concern from the psychiatric and medical professions of sexual behaviour being pathologised or misdiagnosed, television researchers are ignoring this evidence and making programmes anyway.

Mind Hacks: January 2006 Archives 2006

Despite no agreement on sex addiction, or concern from the psychiatric and medical professions of sexual behaviour being pathologised or misdiagnosed, television researchers are ignoring this evidence and making programmes anyway.

Mind Hacks: Sex review and predictions - '05 to '06 2006

No wonder diagnostic manuals get a bad name when behaviour within the normal spectrum even if it is only displayed by a minority of people is pathologised as a 'mental illness'.

Mind Hacks: Anger is an energy - and a mental illness, apparently 2006