The EU Says To End GID As A Mental Disorder

The EU Says To End GID As A Mental Disorder

I came across this article where the EU calls for end to the classification of GID as a mental disorder…

EU Calls for End to Classifying Trans People As Mentally Ill
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By Steve Williams
September 30, 2011

The European Parliament this week voted to pass a resolution calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to stop classifying transgender people as mentally ill.

The text of the resolution, passed Wednesday, reads:

“The European Parliament calls on the Commission and the World Health Organization to withdraw gender identity disorders from the list of mental and behavioral disorders, and ensure a non-pathologizing reclassification in the negotiations on the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases.”

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A statement from Dutch MEP Emine Bozkurt who authored the amendment comes via Pink News:

“Transgender identities are still considered a mental disorder by the World Health Organisation. This must be changed urgently, and certainly by the time the next version comes into effect in 2015.

“Transgender people wishing to live in a body that matches their identity are of course entitled to medical treatment and its benefits, but the negative stigma surrounding them must stop.”

This would be a step in the right direction. The APA is scheduled to release DSM V early next year and it should be interesting to see what the APA has finally settled on, my fears are the that it will be much worse than we now have. The EU is step in the right direction, but I don’t think we will also see much change there.