The World Health Organization won’t classify being transgender as a “mental disorder” anymore.
The United Nations’ health agency approved moving “gender identity disorders” from “mental disorders” to a section on sexual health in its newly revised version of the International Classification of Diseases, the ICD-11, its manual that catalogs diagnoses and symptoms. The move, which was approved on Saturday by the World Health Assembly, also will use the term “gender incongruence” to describe being transgender.
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