The World Health Organization on May 25 officially declassified transgender people as mentally ill. The World Health Assembly, which represents the 194-member state body, voted to remove gender nonconformity as a mental illness in its latest publication of the International Classification of Diseases during its annual assembly in Geneva. The new term for gender identity disorder is “gender incongruence” and it will no longer appear in the chapter of mental disorders. NHK World Japan reported that it was the first […]
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