WHO: Being Transgender No Longer Considered A Mental Illness - Forbes

WHO: Being Transgender No Longer Considered A Mental Illness  Forbes

Portrait of transgender woman. photo credit: Getty The World Health Organization (WHO) will no longer consider being transgender to be a mental illness. On Saturday, May 25, the member states of WHO voted to adopt revisions to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) making for what will be the 11th revision (ICD-11). According to the WHO, the process of revision spanned more than a decade, and there are significant changes between ICD-11 and its predecessor, ICD-10. What it meant to be transgender in ICD-10 While ICD-11 has many changes, on...