World Health Organization has officially declassified being transgender as a mental illness.

[nintendoman58]

WHO removes transgender as mental disorder

The World Health Organization has officially decided to stop classifying transgender people as mentally ill.

WHO member states adopted the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases during an annual assembly in Geneva on Saturday. It is the first update of the illness list in 29 years.

They now describe gender identity disorder as "gender incongruence" and it is no longer listed in the chapter of mental disorders.

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Some good news. Did a search and found nothing.

 

[InspectaDekka]

Awesome...but the world has still a long way to go. Glad we made this step.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

'Bout damn time.

 

[Kyra]

finally! ffs!

 

[Border]

Is it included in the DSM?

 

[Falchion]

Holy shit it's wild it took so long.

 

[TheAbsolution]

Jesus, took them long enough.

 

[Madison]

Wow

This is historic

 

[julia crawford]

About fucking time.

 

[astro]

Good.

 

[andymoogle]

Good. Sadly it won't do much good for the ones who will be denied health care, or hunted down, or kicked to the curb by their families, and so on. The success of the anti-LGBT+ parties in the current EU elections isn't exactly comforting.

 

[Ketkat]

Is it included in the DSM?

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No. Gender Dysphoria is in the DSM, but that is not required to be trans and it's also something that is reduced or eliminated by transitioning.

 

[Introvert]

A ray of sunshine through the dark cloud that is Trump and is supporters.

 

[Conciliator]

Astonishing it took so long but still nice to have some good news

then again I don't even know how relevant or important WHO is

 

[HarryDemeanor]

It's about damn time.

 

[ListeningGarden]

Is there another source for this?? I'm not seeing any other reports, despite this article being published a day ago. Moreover, when looking it up, I'm seeing that a change was made to the WHO's classification in 2018, not this year.

 

[Acorn]

Never knew these meetings were so rare. 29 years is most of my life.

 

[Volimar]

I thought they did this already.

Edit, this is what I was thinking of:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wh...sgender-is-no-longer-a-mental-disorder.50303/

 

[Don Fluffles]

The WHO and medical community doesn't care about Bull Shitpiro's feelings.

 

[TerminusFox]

The WHO and medical community doesn't care about Bull Shitpiro's feelings.

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I legit feel Ben hates gay and trans people more than minorities.