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The person you are responding to, aside, I'm not clear that the APA is as definitive as you represent them to be. From the APA website, under the question: "Is being transgender a mental disorder?":
Answers to your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
They are clearly showing that there is disagreement in the mental health community.
Actually, the disagreement is whether or not GDD should be used as a diagnosis or not. The issue of whether transsexuality is a mental disorder is not the disagreement that is being discussed.