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WHO: Being transgender no longer a mental health condition
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31924
Subject(s) - transgender , mental health , transgender people , transgender person , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , clinical psychology , psychoanalysis
The World Health Organization (WHO) is no longer recognizing transgender as a mental disorder. Gender incongruence , the term used to describe transgender people, will be moved from its chapter on mental disorders to its sexual health chapter in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD‐11) .