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July 28, 2016
Pakistani transgenders carry signs at a rally in Karachi on November 30, 2013 (AFP Photo/Asif Hassan) |
Mexico City
(AFP) - Transgender identity should no longer be classified as a mental
disorder in a World Health Organization list of diseases, according to a study
presented in Mexico on Thursday.
Violence
and social rejection are the cause of mental distress and impairment among
transgender people, not their gender identity, according to the research
published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry.
"If
it's not a disease now, then it never was. This should be clear," Eduardo
Madrigal, president of the Mexican Association of Psychiatry, said at a news
conference.
The field
study was conducted between April and August 2014 among 250 transgender adults
who were receiving health care services at the Condesa Specialized Clinic in
Mexico City.
The group
went through an interview which found that 83 percent had experienced distress
over their gender identity during adolescence.
It is the
first in a series of similar studies that will be conducted in Brazil, France,
India, Lebanon and South Africa.
The results
will be presented at the 11th revision in 2018 of the WHO's International
Classification of Diseases, a diagnostic tool for health care providers around
the world.
"This
reclassification will not only promote discussions for new health policies for
the trans community to have better access to health services, but it will also
help to reduce the stigma and rejection that they are victims of," said
Ana Fresan, one of the study's authors.
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."
It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”
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“… 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."
It isn't confusion at all. It's absolutely normal, yet society often will see it as abnormal. I'm sitting here telling you you've all been through it. All of you. That's what old souls do. It's part of the system. …”
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