Peru does something to force healthcare providers to cover transgender procedures and treatments, people are outraged that it’s been labelled an illness. You can’t make this stuff up.
Yeah, the problem is “do no harm”. To modify your body, a medical professional needs to be fixing something, i.e. you have an illness that needs treatment.
So… you are under the bizarre (and very wrong) impression that doctors in other countries only give gender-affirming care to people they have determined have an illness?
Lol don’t you love it.
Peru does something to force healthcare providers to cover transgender procedures and treatments, people are outraged that it’s been labelled an illness. You can’t make this stuff up.
If the only way to help transgendered people is to call them mentally ill, maybe there’s a bigger problem you’re missing.
It is not the only way, WHO provides a code “gender incongruence” that is a condition “related to sexual health”. Not a mental disorder. https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd
Fine. Then Peru should do that.
Yeah, the problem is “do no harm”. To modify your body, a medical professional needs to be fixing something, i.e. you have an illness that needs treatment.
So… you are under the bizarre (and very wrong) impression that doctors in other countries only give gender-affirming care to people they have determined have an illness?
Because, as I said, you are very wrong.
It could pass a Gender Identity Recognition Act by self-identification. Then cover trasngender health by insurance, prohibit healthcare discrimination on grounds of gender identity, and use a modern, non-pathologizing code the one provided like ICD-11 by WHO “gender incongruence” a condition “related to sexual health”. Not a mental disorder. https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd