Yahoo – AFP,
May 31, 2016
Copenhagen (AFP) - Denmark will next year declassify "being transgender" as a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament health committee decided on Tuesday.
Denmark's parliament will declassify "being transgender" as a mental illness (AFP Photo/Casper Christoffersen) |
Copenhagen (AFP) - Denmark will next year declassify "being transgender" as a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament health committee decided on Tuesday.
"It is
completely inappropriate to call it a sickness," the committee's deputy
chairman Flemming Moller Mortensen told AFP.
"There
is a longstanding wish from the trans community in Denmark to have it
removed" from the health ministry's clinical guidelines on illnesses, he
added.
The move,
which would come into force on January 1, is also intended to put pressure on
the World Health Organization (WHO), which has yet to remove transsexualism
from its list of mental disorders.
Denmark has
"no more patience" with the WHO, which will discuss the issue later
this year, Mortensen said.
Amnesty
International hailed the Danish decision, saying it made Denmark "a role
model for transgendered people's rights".
"Amnesty
would also like to commend the government for its effort in the WHO, where it
has worked to have the disease classification system changed," the group's
Denmark chief Trine Christensen said in a statement.
Rights
group LGBT Denmark also welcomed the move.
"To
remove transgender from the section of mental disorders means removing an
institutionalised stigmatisation of trans people," spokeswoman Linda Thor
Pedersen said.
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"The Akashic Circle" – Jul 17, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Religion, The Humanization of God, Benevolent Design, DNA, Akashic Circle, (Old) Souls, Gaia, Indigenous People, Talents, Reincarnation, Genders, Gender Switches, In “between” Gender Change, Gender Confusion, Shift of Human Consciousness, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)
“… Gender Switching
Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."
Old souls, let me tell you something. If you are old enough, and many of you are, you have been everything. Do you hear me? All of you. You have been both genders. All of you have been what I will call between genders, and that means that all of you have had gender switches. Do you know what happens when it's time for you to switch a gender? We have discussed it before. You'll have dozens of lifetimes as the same gender. You're used to it. It's comfortable. You cannot conceive of being anything else, yet now it's time to change. It takes approximately three lifetimes for you to get used to it, and in those three lifetimes, you will have what I call "gender confusion."
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