Gender diversity isn't disorder
* Published: 28/10/2009 at 12:00 AM
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/26374/gender-diversity-isn-t-disorder (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/26374/gender-diversity-isn-t-disorder)
Government officials and gender and human rights advocates have urged the Defence Ministry to revise a ministerial regulation which regards transgendered people as people having a "gender identity disorder" that exempts them from military service.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the Office of the National Human Rights Commission, they said the regulation disregarded the human dignity of transgendered people and needed to be changed.
We had a rather lengthy discussion here about the problems arising from GID being listed in the DSM.
Julie