LGBT Health (http://www.liebertpub.com/lgbt), a new peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com), launching in fall 2013, presents a timely and in-depth perspective on several key controversies surrounding gender diagnoses. This month the American Psychiatric Association will publish the 5th version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). DSM-5 includes important revisions to the controversial diagnosis formerly known as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), in which an individual’s physical make-up does not align with his or her inner experience of gender. Some had argued that this diagnosis was not only stigmatizing but that it did not meet criteria for classifying it as a mental disorder. The DSM-5 Workgroup chose to retain the disorder classification but to change the name of the disorder to Gender Dysphoria to reduce the stigma associated with the diagnosis. The article “Controversies in Gender Diagnoses (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2013.1500)†by Jack Drescher, MD, is the first article to be published in LGBT Health, and is available free online on the LGBT Health (http://www.liebertpub.com/lgbt) website.
