LGBTQ2SI History
Pathologizing Identities
The DSM
Existing Barriers
100

In this decade, LGBT communities began advocacy to remove homosexuality from the DSM

What is the 60s/1960s

100

This manual has been used by psychologists and psychiatrists to pathologize LGBTQ2SI people

What is the DSM

100

This sexual orientation was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM) in 1974.

What is Homosexuality/Gay

100

This barrier often prevents LGBTQ people from accessing Healthcare

What is Discrimination/Stigma

200

This practice that attempts to change the sexual orientation/gender identity of LGBTQ+ people was banned in Ontario in 2015.

What is Conversion Therapy

200

A Reason LGBTQ identities have been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM)

What is Homophobia (and) or Transphobia

200

This disorder listed in the DSM is related to trans identities.

What is Gender Identity Disorder

200

this barrier is related to costs of mental health care

what is financial

300

This researcher studied sexual behaviour in the 50s, and developed the ________ scale.

What is the Kinsey Scale

300

Psychologists from 1945-1970 used this type of treatments in an attempt to treat non heterosexual identities

What is reparative/aversion therapies

300

This sexual orientation continued to be considered a diagnosis, just under different names, despite its original diagnosis being removed from the DSM.

What is homosexuality/Gay

300

LGBTQ2SI youth under the age of 18 in particular may face this barrier

What is unsupportive parents

400

Some see this Psycharistrst as the “father of clinical treatment of homosexuality”, but he himself did not view experiencing same-gender attraction as a disease

    

What is (Sigmund) Freud

400

This word describes psychatrists/medical professionals  as being “experts” of societal norms regarding human behaviour

What is Gatekeeping

400

This sexual orientation, while often not mentioned while discussing this topic, has also been historically pathologized.

What is Bisexuality

400

this barrier has to do with lack of knowledge practitioners may have about the LGBTQ2SI community

What is education