HIV experts call for declassification of ->-bleeped-<- as mental illness
Pink News
by Jessica Green
December 29, 2009
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/29/hiv-experts-call-for-declassification-of-->-bleeped-<--as-mental-illness/An international meeting of experts on HIV has called for ->-bleeped-<- to be reclassified as a medical condition, rather than a mental illness.
The second International Experts' Meeting on HIV Prevention for MSM, WSW [men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women] and Transgenders took place in Amsterdam in early November with 130 experts from around the world.
A report, called Moving from Intentions to Action, has now been published and calls for change in how trans people are treated.
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"Instead it should be classified as a medical condition. This would provide a diagnostic category in the ICD that would accommodate the needs of those gender identity variant people who require medical care for their condition, but without the stigma attached to mental disorder."
(NB: Here is the
link to the report)
