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I_am_not_mafia Offline
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:13 am (This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 3:17 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(May 15, 2016 at 2:10 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: The goal is to continue doing what they were already doing before HB2.

This. Which is basically what happens around the rest of the world with no problems.
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:15 am (This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 3:17 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
Denmark will become the first country to no longer define being transgender as a mental illness

Quote:Denmark is set to become the first country to no longer define being transgender as a mental illness.

Government officials said classifying transgender people as mentally ill was “stigmatising” and they had “run out of patience” with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) work on the definition.


Quote:"The WHO is currently working on a new system for registering diagnoses. It has been working on it for a very, very long time. Now we’ve run out of patience, and want to send out a signal saying that if the system is not changed by October, then we in Denmark will go it alone.”
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:17 am
More countries didn't do this already?

Wow...

Trust it to be a Scandinavian country leading the way though
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:38 am (This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 3:38 am by robvalue.)
What!?

I am also shocked this isn't already the case in civilised countries.

But go Denmark!
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:38 am
Yup.
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 3:51 am
Just read that France made this policy change in 2010.
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 4:03 am
In the USA, we may not be able to change the diagnosis like that, even if we wanted to do so, because it would give grounds for private insurance companies to deny coverage. As I understand it now, the dysphoria diagnosis is largely used as a "check-box" by a professional who assesses the need in the patient, and then the insurance companies must pay.

The Scandinavians, who have socialized medicine like the rest of the First World countries, don't have to worry to much about that element.
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 4:08 am
(May 12, 2016 at 10:26 am)ChadWooters Wrote: So according to you guys the wellbeing of the true victims must be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

What victims are you talking about?
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 4:37 am (This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 5:41 am by account_inactive.)
(May 15, 2016 at 3:15 am)Mathilda Wrote: Denmark will become the first country to no longer define being transgender as a mental illness

Quote:Denmark is set to become the first country to no longer define being transgender as a mental illness.

Government officials said classifying transgender people as mentally ill was “stigmatising” and they had “run out of patience” with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) work on the definition.


Quote:"The WHO is currently working on a new system for registering diagnoses. It has been working on it for a very, very long time. Now we’ve run out of patience, and want to send out a signal saying that if the system is not changed by October, then we in Denmark will go it alone.”

I am beginning to love Denmark.
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RE: Transexuals
May 15, 2016 at 6:49 am (This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 6:50 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Awww it's a pity because their music was always so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwn1ArVHxnA

It's a pity they suck at being progressive when it comes to health definitions: because they ain't so bad at it when it comes to music Tongue
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