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Being transgender is not a mental illness, and the WHO should acknowledge this

  • Written by Damien Riggs, Associate Professor in Social Work, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Flinders University
imageThe pathology lies in society discriminating against transgender people, not in transgender people themselves.Ted Eytan/Flickr, CC BY

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced it may no longer classify being transgender as a disorder in the revised version of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), due for release in 2018.

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