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5/16/09
Gender Queer Protest the APA May 18 at the Moscone Center
Protest the APA and Gender Identity Disorder!
START DATE: Monday May 18TIME: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location Details:At the corner of 4th and Howard Street in front of the Moscone Center.Event Type: Protest
Contact Name: Danielle AskiniEmail Address: danielle [at] gidreformnow.com
Address: 1550 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Protesters call for Reform of Gender Disorders at American PsychiatricAssociation Convention
What: A coalition of transgender community advocates and mental healthproviders will gather in San Francisco May 18 to protest how theAmerican Psychiatric Association (APA) is handling revisions to“gender identity disorder” and related diagnoses in their fifthedition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’(DSM-V).
When: Monday May 18th Protest starts at 6:00pm,Where: At the corner of 4th and Howard Street, San Francisco –Outsidethe Moscone Center
Who: A coalition of medical and therapeutic professionals,gender-variant, transgender people, community members, and alliesworking under the name GIDreformNOW who have grave concerns about thecurrent diagnostic classification and lack of disclosure by the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group about plans for the DSM-V.
Key leaders and advocates for Transgender civil rights will be presentto speak, they include Julia Serano, PhD; Madeline Deutsch, MD; MasenDavis, MSW; Kelley Winters, PhD; Danielle Askini, MSW; Mara Keisling;Andrea James, MA; Lore Dickey, PhD; Michele Angello, PhD; and RebeccaAllison, MD.All are welcome to attend!
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