But the ICD 11 has moved gender incongruence out of  "Mental and behavioural disorders" and into "Conditions related to sexual health".

Progress 

Hugs, Devlyn

Yes the first time I turned up at hot rod club in a dress threw a few to start with even though they all knew, no problem now and get nice comments from the wives/girl friends as well. Shopping today so jeans and a long flower pattern top, its chill by the freezer section!!!

Quoteit's the way my relationship to the world at large

Spot on.

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I was talking to a friend about this. He wasn't speaking about Peru in particular, but politics in general. He said,

"There is only one reason to declare someone mentally ill. To control them."

That made me think.

Quote from: Jessica_K on May 15, 2024, 02:57:26 PMHere in the UK, GP's are useless for anything transgender orientated. "We are not trained to administer hormones or to evaluate bloods" so will not do either. The fact they administer hormones to cis women and know exactly what good hormone blood levels are in cis women says it all.

I have a female GP that I choose thinking from her CV would good, but she is just like all the rest.

I hope in your country or state GP's are better than here.

Jessica xxx

My GP in the UK was amazing.. not totally accepting, we had a LONG conversation about his views on transgender people and their rights and he stated he would 'Never administer drugs of any kind to a child to ease gender dysphoria'. However for me, he was supportive and wrote of my prescriptions without a murmur, liaised with the private hospital and surgeon who did my surgery and was supportive on my post-op recovery.

I am sorry Jessica if you have a bad one.. but you know what, you can change your GP really easy.. I did not just happen to have this guy as a GP.. I had that transgender conversation BEFORE I joined his surgery.. The NHS has a lot of problems. It has some very bad wait times for gender surgery and gender confirmative care on the whole, but it does exist and it is accessesable to ALL.. in the USA you need insurance, that costs money and in most cases it is a lot of money. If you are working a dead end job, no insurance the chances of you even getting hormones are zero.. The chances of you being able to afford your consultations are zero.

I chose to pay for my surgery, I wanted it faster than the NHS could muster it up.. a friend of mine, however went the NHS route, did the GHC and the years of wait.. she had her surgery 3 months before me in the same hospital, with the same surgeon, with the same level of service.. it cost, on the door, nothing to them and close to £20,000 for me. The only difference was 3 or 4 years. WHilst that is too long, it being available to everyone is still something to be proud of and demands to make the NHS better are all called for - But classing it all as 'useless' or worse the people that work hard in this service as 'useless' is harsh

I have built in prejudices like everyone else.. . I, however, understand that like in people in general, doctors are not about what they look or sound like. So I take each one at face value, hope for the best and continue to use them if they show they are good at what they do. To this end, a young Spanish female doctor saved my life 15 years ago, a middle aged Iranian surgeon removed a huge brain tumour from my head without killing me, a young Asian guy proved to be the most amazing endocrinologist I have ever met and an Ethiopian refugee, was my overnight nurse in hospital recovering from surgery who just went above and beyond to ease my pain..

Stereotypes are best avoided when dealing with your health..

If you go to the source here:
https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2287398-1

you will see (if you translate it) that this is about national insurance for health care, and not allowing insurance to exclude any conditions.. It uses the ICD-10 diagnoses, that are used worldwide to classify disorders and states that anything in these classifications is legally covered.

For example one of the codes covered, F64.0 ( https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/F01-F99/F60-F69/F64-/F64.0 ) transsexualism, is now covered under state law. It is a shame that the ICD.10 still indicates that these are mental disorders. A mental disorder is not a mental illness BTW, but it is biased reporting to state that this was something the Peruvian government has stated or some 'backwards step' as posted by the pink news.. This is a case of checking your facts before getting offended.. many people are too easily offended.. I think most people in Peru will welcome this move forward in what is a country with a lot of other issues.

As a side note, intersex is in the ICD-10 - The ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for indeterminate sex is Q56.4. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists this code under the range of congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities. Again, bad reporting by Pink News stating that this was being listed as a mental disorder.. when it is clearly not, just a disorder also included in the new legislation.