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		Animats 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Delusional themes may be more varied than we thoug... That's an escape hatch for religion.

jl6 6 months ago [–]

I always wondered if there was a clinical basis for that escape hatch or if the drafting committee felt it was just too contentious to go there.

Animats 6 months ago | [–]

Probably the latter. Homosexuality was removed from the DSM as a diagnosis in 1973, by a vote of 5,854 to 3,810. Gender identity disorder was removed from the DSM in 2017.

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