Please join KFA
in applauding the American Psychological Association
(APA) for their
action this week towards ending discrimination against our
transgender brothers and sisters. 
Under the
leadership of Dr. Margaret Schneider, Associate Professor of
Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, the
APA’s
Taskforce on Gender Identity and Gender Variance conducted a two
year study that recently concluded with a long-list of
recommendations being put forward to the APA’s governing body.
This week the
governing APA Council of
Representatives acted on those recommendations and called for
full equality for transgender individuals.
Their resolution urges
psychologists to:
- Support legal and social
recognition of transgender individuals
consistent with their
gender identity and expression;
- Support the provision of
adequate and medically necessary treatment for
transgender
and gender-variant people; and
- Recognize the benefit and
necessity of gender transition treatments for
appropriately
evaluated individuals.
The
APA’s
resolution this week follows action earlier this year when the
organization added gender identity to their nondiscrimination
policy in their Code of Ethics and Guidelines and Principles for
Accreditation of Professional Programs in Psychology.
KFA thanks the APA for their action this week and
Dr. Schneider for her continued
leadership!
In Fairness,
Your KFA
Team.
The
APA, based in
Washington,
DC, is the largest
scientific and professional organization representing psychology
in the United
States and is the world's
largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than
148,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and
students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology
and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian
provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a
science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human
welfare.
The
Ampersand symbolizes the solidarity we are building through 