Posted on 05/28/2019 1:44:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed Gender Identity Disorder from its list of mental illnesses.
According to Human Rights Watch, the change was finalized on Friday, March 25 at the 72nd World Health Assembly, the WHO’s chief decision-making body. The elimination of Gender Identity Disorder as a pathology was part of the eleventh revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). The WHO indicated that the revised catalogue will come into effect in January 2022.
Human Rights Watch, an non-governmental organization (NGO) in New York City, indicated that the change was made due to “an evolving scientific understanding of gender” and pressure from international transexual activists.
In a “joint statement on ICD-11 process for trans & gender diverse people,” transexualist advocacy group GATE had demanded the removal of “trans-related categories” out of the ICD chapter on mental health, the expurgation of “remaining pathologizing language” and “advancing towards legal depathologization and universal health coverage.”
It rejects the use of the new term for the experience of people who believe that their gender differs from their biological sex, “gender incongruence.”
The LGBT rights director at Human Rights Watch celebrated the revision to the ICD-11, saying it would have a “liberating effect.”
“The WHO’s removal of ‘gender identity disorder’ from its diagnostic manual will have a liberating effect on transgender people worldwide,” said Graeme Reid. “Governments should swiftly reform national medical systems and laws that require this now officially outdated diagnosis.”
According to Human Rights Watch, many governments require a diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder before allowing people to change their names and sexes on official documents.
Human Rights Watch noted also that In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association revised its own manual to expunge “gender identity order.” Unwilling to dispense entirely with the concept, it added the term “gender dysphoria,” which means unhappiness caused by “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.”
The pro-LGBT organization welcomed the WHO’s decision because it wants people, especially young people, who call themselves transgender to be able to receive medical assistance without feeling the stigma of mental illness.
Satan moves another pawn into play. Revelation comes more into focus...
So does it still need taxpayer-funded medical assistance?
The socialist left always claimed they kept no political prisoners, just the mentally ill who couldn't appreciate the Utopia which they created.
an evolving scientific understanding of genderWell there you have it.
Why not simply remove mental illness from the list of mental illnesses?
Maybe they could remove cancer from the list of deadly illnesses and then cancer would no longer exist. That’s the way it works, right?
Until the 1970s DSM volumes guided psychiatrists on the mental illness classifications of homosexuals. Then they removed it all under lobbying pressure in a heated argument.
No longer nuts.
Global warming was disproven and scientist were found to have falsified data to bolster their side. The term was changed to “global climate change”. With the rules changed, they will always win, the change to hot or cold or back again. They win again-—a change.
Like when I was a kid and my sister used to throw the checkers and board into the air when she was about to lose to me again.
Now the mentally ill sex change lunatics get a break, too.
but added gaming addiction disorder
Trump derangement syndrome ears incapacitating Millions apparently...
1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. John 16:1-4
Couldn’t this backfire? If it’s not a mental condition then I assume it’s also not a covered medical condition and therefore not covered by insurance?
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