Word: apa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian Pacific American (APA) community congregates this weekend at "Living Out Loud: the New Voice of Asian America," the 9th annual Harvard intercollegiate conference of its kind, I find myself considering what it means for Asian Americans to "live loudly" or to live in silence. The myth of our success as the model minority, has led to a misrepresentation of Asian Americans in the mainstream American imagination. These distortions come at great material and political costs...
Looking at Asian American voice in the political process reveals similar processes of silencing. A 1992 report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified numerous structural barriers to APA voting, such as apportionment schemes that in Los Angeles, for example, split APA populations across electoral districts, inadequate publication of multilingual ballots and voting literature and redistricting distortions caused by undercounting in the census. Moreover, the report identifies longstanding bias in the major parties against Asian American politicians...
...administrators who met with the undergraduate Transgender Task Force last year seem to be receptive to the idea of discounting the APA's designation though they have yet to make a definitive decision on the validity of self-determination of gender...
...some psychiatrists, such as Charles W. Socarides '45, agree with the APA's designation and believe that people who want to change their gender should be treated through psychoanalysis...
...From a personal standpoint, what the APA thinks of transgenderism, I'm not really concerned with," he says, adding that the APA also classified homosexuality as a mental disorder until the mid-1970s. "There's historical precedent for the APA being wrong...