France pioneers a better understanding of transgenderism around the world
LGBT, NewsBites, World — By Speak Equal on February 15, 2010 at 2:08 pmFrance has become the first country in the world to declassify transgenderism as a mental illness.
Health minister Roselyne Bachelot announced in May last year, before International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), that the country would move to de-list the condition as a mental illness.
A government decree on Wednesday confirmed the change.
Although France has made the move, the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association continue to list the condition as a mental illness, rather than a medical condition.
However, trans advocates hope this will encourage them to follow suit.
“France is the first country in the world that does not consider transexualism a mental illness,” Joël Bedos, the French representative of IDAHO, told AFP last week.
As our communities move forward in the fight for equality, we must not forget that at one time medical opinion once held that homosexuality was a mental illness. It was removed from the list of mental disorders by the World Health Organization in 1990 … a mere 20 years ago.
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