Being gay was considered a mental illness up until 1973 when it was removed from the DSM-3. What changed? Well, nothing really except increased social tolerance for sexual deviance. Much of what gets classified as a mental health disorder is driven by shifts in collective societal perspectives.

The shift in definition from gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria is a good example. Instead of incongruence between sex and gender being the criteria for a mental illness, it now has to cause distress within the individual to be a mental illness. Society accepts, normalizes and even encourages being trans. Also, it isn’t “normal” to be gay as the mind and physical attraction is not congruent with the person’s biology. This is a mental problem.


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