Developmental and clinical psychologist Diane Ehrensaft told the Psychiatric Times, "The mental health profession has been consistently doing harm to children who are not gender normal, and they need to retrain." Society and culture
Diagnostic dispute
Pickstone-Taylor has called Zucker and Bradleys therapeutic intervention "something disturbingly close to reparative therapy for homosexuals." Other academics, such as Maddux et al., have also compared it to such therapy. They argue that the goal is preventing a transgender identity because reparative therapy is believed to reduce the chances of adult GD, "which Zucker and Bradley characterize as undesirable. "Author Phyllis Burke wrote, "The diagnosis of GID in children, as supported by Zucker and Bradley, is simply child abuse." Zucker dismisses Burkes book as "simplistic" and "not particularly illuminating;" and journalist Stephanie Wilkinson said Zucker characterized Burkes book as "the work of a journalist whose views shouldnt be put into the same camp as those of scientists like Richard Green or himself. "Critics argue that the GIDC diagnosis was a backdoor maneuver to replace homosexuality in the DSM; Zucker and Robert Spitzer counter that the GIDC inclusion was based on "expert consensus," which is "the same mechanism that led to the introduction of many new psychiatric diagnoses, including those for which systematic field trials were not available when the DSM-III was published."
Most commonly acute cerebellar ataxia affects children between age 2 and 7 years. See also
Gluten ataxia

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