Eating Disorders and Gender Dysphoria: Assignment 3 will be a bit different, and

Eating Disorders and Gender Dysphoria: Assignment 3 will be a bit different, and look much more like your Discussion Board questions! Please read Chapter 9, review the supplementary materials in the Assignment 3 folder (under Course Materials), and then submit a word document with the responses to TWO of the below questions. You choose which two are most interesting to you! Each response will be 10 points each, for a total of 20 points.
Anorexia nervosa is the psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate. Would you have guessed that before you took this course, or even after the past 13 weeks of studying different disorders? Probably not. Eating disorders are often overlooked, though they are not uncommon. If you include people who have disordered patterns of eating (i.e., perhaps some restriction, or rigidity in dieting that causes subclinical levels of distress or impairment), it is even more common. What new information did you get from the readings and course materials? Was there anything that surprised you? What common myths did you believe before that were disproved by the information you learned?
Eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia, are often related to societal and cultural factors. In truth, eating disorders are more commonly diagnosed in women, though they certainly do occur in all genders (see what I did there?). Talk about the causes of eating disorders — individual, interpersonal, environmental, and systemic. What factors do you think are at play here, based on the readings and Ted Talk? What factors do you think maintain these disorders, or in other words, what makes them so hard to recovery from?
Before 1973, “Homosexuality” was listed as a psychological disorder in the DSM-II. When the American Psychiatric Association eliminated it from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, it was replaced with “Sexual Orientation Disturbance,” which specified that one was distressed due to their sexual orientation (not that their sexual orientation was the disturbance itself). In the shift from DSM-IV to DSM-V, Gender Identity Disorder was replaced with Gender Dysphoria, which is the correct diagnosis when someone displays “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.” This is a huge step towards inclusion, and reduces medical stigma — the term “Gender Identity Disorder” essentially labels all transgender individuals as mentally ill, which is not the case. However, in order to receive insurance coverage for various gender affirming procedures, some diagnosis must still exist — therefore, the distressed caused by the incongruence is what is targeted by the most recent diagnosis. The stigma associated with being transgender or gender non-conforming (GNC) is significant, and is evident in numerous stats. There were at least 57 murders of trans-identified people last year (many of whom were trans people of color). HRC has listed the names of these individuals here, if you’d like more information. We know that stigma arises from lack of knowledge, unsubstantiated fears, and the othering of human beings. What is one thing that you learned about gender dysphoria and trans identities from the readings and course materials that you did not know before? Is there anything that you wish other people knew, or understood?
After watching Emily Quinn’s Ted Talk on being intersex, what is something that surprised you or had you thinking about sex assigned at birth in a different way? Was there something you learned that you wish others knew?
Book access is on Vital Source called Abnormal Psychology


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