the APA protest...

...will be this upcoming Monday, details below, feel free to distribute them widely. And if you know any media types that are interested in covering/writing about the protest, please direct them to the GID Reform Now media advisory (which has contacts for the protest organizers, etc.). -julia

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May 15, 2009

Protesters call for Reform of Gender Disorders at American Psychiatric Association Convention

What: San Francisco, California (May 15, 2009) A coalition of transgender community advocates and mental health providers will gather in San Francisco May 18 to protest how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is handling revisions to “gender identity disorder” and related diagnoses in their fifth edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-V).

Where: At the corner of 4^th Street and Howard Street –Outside the Moscone Center

When: Protest starts at 6:00pm, Monday May 18^th

Who: Community leaders scheduled to speak include Julia Serano, PhD; Madeline Deutsch, MD; Masen Davis, MSW; Kelley Winters, PhD; Danielle Askini, MSW; Mara Keisling; Andrea James, MA; Lore Dickey, PhD; Michele Angello, PhD; and Rebecca Allison, MD.

GIDreformNOW.com is a coalition of gender-variant and transgender people, medical and therapeutic professionals, and allies who have grave concerns about the current diagnostic classification and lack of disclosure by the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group about plans for the DSM-V. The protest is at 6pm May 18th at the Moscone Center at Howard & 4^th street, San Francisco, California.

http://www.gidreformnow.com