re: Trump Admin wants to allow adoption organizations to deny gay couples

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And you know as well as I do not a single study was cited to support the change

it was a political change. I know you know this.

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This change was done in 1973. This is from the NY Times:

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The American Psychiatric Association, altering a position it has held for nearly a century, decided today that homosexuality is not a mental disorder.

The board of trustees of the 20,00D-member group approved a resolution that said in part, “by itself, homosexuality does not meet the criteria for being a psychiatric disorder.”

Persons who are troubled by their homosexuality, the trustees said, will be classified as having a “sexual orientation disturbance” should they come to a psychiatrist for help.

“We will no longer insist on a label of sickness for individuals who insist that they are well and demonstrate no generalized impairment in social effectiveness,” the trustees said.

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Sounds like it was kind of common sense that it was not a disorder as there were no generalized impairments for those individuals.