Thai military no longer defines gays as mentally ill

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The Thai military said Thursday it will no longer define gays, transvestites and transsexuals as mentally ill, although it insisted they were unfit to be soldiers.

The change comes after a transsexual, Samart Meecharoen, filed a complaint Wednesday with the Central Administration Court, challenging the military's policy as discriminatory.

The new policy will list them as suffering from sexual identity problems.

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A transsexual student yesterday petitioned the Administrative Court to seek changes in the army's statement on his conscription certificate (sor dor 43) which exempted him from service for having a ''mental disorder''. Samart Meecharoen, a 22-year-old tourism business student of Ban Somdej Chao Phraya Rajabhat University, said the document, issued in 2004 when he reported for annual conscription in Lop Buri, had deprived him of job opportunities.