The dilemma of Pakistan transgender persons (protection of rights) act, 2018: a clinical psychologist’s review

Abstract

This article is a criticism of the psychological and psychiatric diagnoses associated with transgender people according to DSM-5 criteria of Gender dysphoria. It will also create awareness regarding the flaws and inappropriateness of Transgender persons Act 2018 bill according to the ethics, norms and cultural values of Islamic state. The development of medical classifications related to gender identity and disorders took off in the nineteenth century in western society, driven by the flourishing of natural sciences. In the nineteenth century, most authors assembled the answer of the questions of sexual orientation and gender. The psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing evaluated cases of transgender people reported as paranoia the extreme degree of severity in a dimension of sexual inversion. The early 1900s, doctors such as Magnus Hirschfeld first identified and distinguished homosexual and transgender behavior at that time the usual term for transgender people was transvestite . There are few details for transgender people and gender dysphoria are mentioned below from DSM-III and ICD-10 to DSM-5 and ICD-11.