[WHO] Trans is no longer classified a mental disorder - Sensationalist Headlines

The World Health Organization (WHO) just announced Monday that they will no longer be classifying gender incongruence as a mental disorder. In its latest revision to a disease classification manual called the International Classification of Diseases, or I.C.D., the U.N. health agency explains the change, and why they are (finally) removing the transgender mental disorder classification. “Gender incongruence, meanwhile, has also been moved out of mental disorders in the ICD, into sexual health conditions,” the report says. “The rationale being that while evidence is now clear that it is not a mental disorder, and indeed classifying it in this can cause enormous stigma for people who are transgender, there remain significant health care needs that can best be met if the condition is coded under the ICD.” Removing the mental health label from trans identity is a powerful and important signifier of acceptance, advocates and mental health professionals say. “The intention is to reduce barriers to care,” says Geoffrey Reed, a psychologist who is coordinating the mental health and behavior disorders section in the new edition of the I.C.D. “It’s sending a very strong message that the rest of the world is no longer considering it a mental disorder,” says Dr. Michael First, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and the chief technical consultant to the new edition of the codebook. “One of the benefits of moving it out of the mental disorder section is trying to reduce stigma.” https://hornet.com/stories/transgender-mental-disorder/ ( Currently only source I found in English as all the rest are right now focusing into the videogame addiction part, ironically enough right now almost all spanish media is talking about this rather than the videogame one ). International Classification of Diseases Official report. Feel free to add more sources as right now only spanish ones are reporting on this.

So, as well meaning as this message is, the first question that comes to mind is how will insurers react to this? Is this going to be used as an excuse to not cover trans medical expenses?

Well hopefully there's a rush to replace it with "gender dysphoria" as a disorder.

I'm not sure I like the idea of classifying things based on how people feel about them and not the facts of the matter. I think the correct route is destigmatizing all mental disorders, not granting certain mental disorders "clemency"

I don't think that's going to change unless there's a change in the next version of the DSM.

I'm not really familiar with all of the medical terminology here. I think their point is to say there's nothing wrong with who they are as people on the inside (especially since it would be destructive to try and change their personas); rather, the problem is a need for bodily treatment. I'm well-meaning, but what term should be used here that still indicates the need for medical treatment? "Body disorder" doesn't seem like an official term.

It says in the OP that they're just moving it to a category of sexual disorders This really depends on what you think the cause of gender dysphoria is. The leading belief is that it's largely biological and not environmental, in which case, it'd be pretty happily at home in the category they're placing it in. There are a wide amount of disorders within the sexual health category, some of which largely deal with psychology. The way I think of gender as it relates to transgenderism nowadays is that it's a sex characteristic like hormonal sex, gonadal sex, etc. and it's what your brain is stuck with.

When it leads to self-mutilation of your own sexual organs (sex change). I would consider it a mental disorder.

Tell me, where have you heard of these DIY sex changes? Because last time I checked, self-mutilation generally isn't carried out by surgeons. Or are you just being an asshole?

As opposed to circumcision done when you're a baby and have no say in the matter and is still a thing in some places to this date? Nah that's not a mental disorder.

How about the condition that leads to the self-humiliation of yourself (low iq posting)?

Usually you get a doctor to perform the surgery instead of doing it yourself FYI

Agreeing to have someone chop your dick off isn't mental?

what if you have penis cancer

Not every trans person goes through with full SRS, it depends on how deep their dysphoria runs normally.

That would be... if that's how it fucking worked

I was mentally ill when I agreed to have doctors rip my tonsils out at a young age, I guess? It's a procedure, dog - stop slapping scary verbs on it to fit in your gross recontextualization of SRS

Cool, hopefully it's easier for me to get what i need now to properly transition over

Not really, it has been moved under Sexual Health Conditions. It is still considered as something in need of treatment but in a more accurate category.

That is life and death, not exactly the same. One is your own discomfort with your body the other is you dying if you don't get it done. I have seen the procedure performed. Pardon me for oversimplifying the method of destroying someones genitalia. I just can't fathom why people don't think its kinda crazy for someone to wish to intentionally handicap themselves by having another person mutilate them beyond recognition. Because they feel like it.

Many trans women (like yours truly) have no desire to go through procedures like the one you're crudely referring to.

Why do you think its mutilation as opposed to correction?

In what way is having a vagina a handicap, what in the goddamn

we have to sit down to pee forever why must we suffer this intentional handicap we place on ourselves

You're just saying something that doesn't matter. The point is that instead of jerking off about how it's DESTROYING something, you look at the risks and benefits involved of doing it and not doing it, and come to a decision. Most trans people will never get SRS in the first place, and of even those that do, they're generally forced to wait a long period and spend a good deal of time presenting as the desired sex of assignment. (which I think is just fine.)

kind of like a mental order that induces suicide you fucking dingus

Would dysphoria be considered a mental disorder, and transitioning would be its cure? Either way, I'm sure a lot of trans people are happy and that makes me happy.

Generally, yes. There some some other niche ways that a small percentage of people experiencing GD can overcome it. But generally speaking, transitioning is the cure to it.

That's how the DSM-V sees it, so yes, I'd say that's accurate.

The value of dicks n' tits is purely subjective to their owners