The info is out there. The DSM-IV called it "gender identity disorder" but it has been re-named "gender dysphoria" in the DSM V, because it is no longer seen as a disorder (or illness).
Now whether or not you or I consider it a disorder, illness, condition, etc, is beside the point. It really comes down to ideological framing.
Certainly some of the "ideological framing" going on is this post. And Visionstorm's attempt to cite "sources" that are not the APA, and do not reference the DSM that you cite as "proof".
You point out the name change from "identity disorder" to "dysphoria" in the DSM as "proof" that it is "no longer seen as a disorder (or illness)."
You conveniently do not explain what the DSM is, or is an abbreviation of. Allow me to help:
DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders = It's a mental disorder.
The APA (American Psychiatric Association) has re-named many other listings in the DSM in the past for clarity in diagnosis several times. Note that Homosexuality is not listed at all in the DSM
IMHO it does not take a genius to see that the change from "disorder" to "dysphoria" was done for political reasons so that APA will take less heat from trans activists who are too lazy to read or look up definitions in a dictionary. If you actually bother to compare the listings in DSM-IV-TR and the new DSM-V; you will find that the actual definitions of the "disorder/dysphoria" are still identical. (With more explanatory wording in the DSM-V about diagnosis).
Because I can: Listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders = It's a mental disorder. Not that hard guys.
Yes, the NHS and WHO both contradict the APA. (APA = the group of dedicated actual psychiatrists.)
News Flash! Woke activists with power to set policy are willing to lie and be disingenuous to push their agenda.
In other news: Water is Wet.
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I think you misunderstand what I mean by "ideological framing." I'm trying to point out that whether one sees it as a disorder or illness depends upon one's ideology - how we frame it. We all have an ideological framing, we all interpret and contextualize based upon our worldview. I am no more exempt from this than anyone else.
I was merely contrasting that with the APA and the DSM, which does not see it as a disorder. Not everything in the DSM is a disorder - don't get hung up on the title of the book. Presumably it is included in the DSM V because people experience suffering due to it. Meaning, the "illness" part is not feeling like a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice versa), but the resulting suffering - a lot of which has to do with lack of societal acceptance. This is a subtle and complex issue that can't blithely be written off by clarifying the title of a book.
What I see often getting lost--or simply not understood--in all the knee-jerk reactionism to everything woke, is that sometimes it is actually done out of kindness, in an attempt to ease suffering and address problems. Unfortunately it often, even usually, goes too far and becomes the kind of smothering quasi-fascism that people here get upset with. On the other side, though, is a frequent lack of compassion and understanding. So from the perspective of those not in either extreme camp, it comes off as a clusterfuck of two warring extremist dogmas.
Relating that to the topic at hand, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a bunch of fat lesbians creating an RPG and marketing it however they want. Just as there is nothing wrong with finding it annoying or not to one's taste. Unfortunately it often gets pushed to further extremes and people lose sight of the fact that we're all better served by
both increased diversity (and range of RPG products and people playing them)
and the freedom to discuss such things in whatever manner we choose, all within the umbrella of an inclusive environment and community. We're all united in our love of RPGs, after all. Wokesters lose sight of this, but so do some of the folks kneejerking against anything that has even the hint of wokeness.