Denmark to Declassify Being Transgender as Mental Disorder

• Denmark to Declassify Being Transgender as Mental Disorder
  by Agence France-Presse, via http://www.theguardian.com/international  
  Move is intended to put pressure on the World Health Organisation, which has yet to remove transsexualism from its list of mental disorders.
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  Denmark will next year declassify “being transgender” as a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament health committee have announced. “It is completely inappropriate to call it a sickness,” the committee’s deputy chairman Flemming Moller Mortensen said on Tuesday.
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  “There is a longstanding wish from the trans community in Denmark to have it removed” from the health ministry’s clinical guidelines on illnesses, he added. The move, which would come into force on 1 January, is also intended to put pressure on the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has yet to remove transsexualism from its list of mental disorders. Denmark has “no more patience” with the WHO, which will discuss the issue later this year, Mortensen said.
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