Finally

Finally the APA, which has long determined that people who wanted to transition between genders had a "mental disorder" and not a physical one as long been the common sense diagnosis, has decided to advocate for health insurance companies and health care providers to cover medically prescribed and necessary treatments and costs for Gender Idendity Disorder, now termed Gender Dysphoria. Gee, what took them so long?

NEWS RELEASE:
APA Issues Official Positions Supporting Access to Care and the Rights of Transgender and Gender Variant Persons
August 16, 2012 | Release No. 12-36
Staff, The American Psychological Association

News Release

Access to Care for Transgender and Gender Variant Individuals

The American Psychiatric Association:

Recognizes that appropriately evaluated transgender and gender variant individuals can benefit greatly from medical and surgical gender transition treatments.

Advocates for removal of barriers to care and supports both public and private health insurance coverage for gender transition treatment.

Opposes categorical exclusions of coverage for such medically necessary treatment when prescribed by a physician.

Discrimination against Transgender and Gender Variant Individuals

The American Psychiatric Association:

Supports laws that protect the civil rights of transgender and gender variant individuals.

Urges the repeal of laws and policies that discriminate against transgender and gender variant people.

Opposes all public and private discrimination against transgender and gender variant individuals in such areas as health care, employment, housing, public accommodation, education, and licensing.

Declares that no burden of proof of such judgment, capacity, or reliability shall be placed upon these individuals greater than that imposed on any other persons.

I'll give them an A for finally coming out for something they call a disorder but not for their timliness, but then now is better than never.