France has become the first country in the world to declare that being a transsexual does not mean you are mentally ill. Campaigners hope the French decree, published in February, will have a domino effect worldwide and encourage the World Health Organisation (WHO) to revise its current definition of transsexuality as a “disorder of sexual identity”. Homosexuality was removed from the WHO’s list of mental disorders in 1990. Up to 60,000 people are affected by the change in France.
Article from Monocle Magazine (www.monocle.com)
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