(Excerpts from CNN News)
The World Health Organization
(WHO) uses the term “gender incongruence” to describe people whose gender
identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth.
Now, the WHO is moving this
term to the panel's sexual health chapter from its mental disorders chapter.
The new classification will improve social acceptance among transgender people
while still making important health resources available.
The new standard of
classification appears in the 11th revision of the International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), which was
adopted Saturday by the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. It will
go into effect on January 1, 2022.
The WHO does not expect the
ICD change to affect transgender people's need for health care.
This is not the first time the
ICD has changed a classification related to sexuality. In 1990, the WHO
declared that "sexual orientation alone is not to be regarded as a
disorder."
Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
President Elect Confederation of
Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania
(CMAAO)
Group Editor-in-Chief IJCP Publications
President Heart Care Foundation of
India
Past National President
IMA
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