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. ❋ Unknown (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? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because Intersex existance physicaly disputes the notion of a sex Binary we are pathologised by those that seek to reinforce it. ❋ JLK (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
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 ... ❋ Unknown (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'. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In addition, many feel that they are being pathologised for simply being different. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Because of these attitudes, smoking cessation is becoming increasingly pathologised, a development that risks distorting public awareness of how most smokers quit, to the obvious benefit of the pharmaceutical companies," say the researchers. ❋ Mukul (2010)
In adopting this approach, corporations are pathologised - treated as deviants in an economic system that is otherwise basically okay. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is my view my view that we in the west are already well on the way to a new form of post-modern totalitarian state (what Guy Herbert calls 'soft fascism') in which behaviour and opinions which are disapproved of by the political class are pathologised and then regulated by violence-backed laws "for your own good 'or" for the children "or" for the environment. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A desire becomes a need, and then that need becomes pathologised. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Just as the gay man has been normalised, so the heterosexual buyer has been pathologised. ❋ Unknown (2010)
