tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post4936338555020770075..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Square Peg, Round HoleZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-48903000514765604552008-05-12T14:33:00.000+10:002008-05-12T14:33:00.000+10:00"happiness", "quality of life" or even basic menta..."happiness", "quality of life" or even basic mental health, wasn't considered important<BR/><BR/>EXACTLYDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384955332870075804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-39318297166060177602008-05-11T09:23:00.000+10:002008-05-11T09:23:00.000+10:00Your past three posts are really heartbreaking; fo...Your past three posts are really heartbreaking; for the individual pain of the individuals involved, for the collective pain of those who have face similar scenarios and know the result all to well, and for the infuriating inability of closed minds to see variation in humanity not only as humanity's greatest strength, but life's most miraculous aspect worth living.<BR/><BR/>I have not been an activist for many years, nor do I really want to be one now. At 57, I know that most of my own path in life has been played out simply doing the best I can. The events in motion now will not affect me directly. But they may alyer the lives of thousands yet to come very directly and those effects may be repercussions for millions more.<BR/>If we destroy our children, do we not destroy the possibilities of our future as well?. <BR/><BR/>I simply cannot comprehend the logic that places ideology, theory, prestige at a higher value than a human life. It strikes me is being self evident that men who cannot adhere to the ethical standards of their own profession (borh Zucker and Blanchard are clinical psychologists covered by the American Pyschological Association's resolution you linked) would be no more ethical in propsing guidelines for diagnosis for another more learned profession (bound by the additional standards of ethics for the medical profession) the American Psychiatric Association, which compiles the DSM.<BR/>Perhaps my vision in regard to ethical conduct is as impaired as my ability to know how I experience my own conflict of gender.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com