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World Health Organization Removes ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ Diagnosis
Photo by Samantha Hurley from Burst(Geneva, May 27, 2019) – The World Health Organization (WHO) approved a major change to its global manual of diagnoses on May 25, 2019, that will greatly benefit transgender people around the world, Human Rights Watch said today. The World Health Assembly, the WHO governing body that represents 194 member states, voted for new diagnostic guidelines that no longer describe gender nonconformity as a “mental disorder.”
Historically, many medical systems, including those supported by the WHO, have...
