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- 20 October 2020
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Depathologization
Depathologization focuses on removing psycho-medical and legal restrictions for trans and gender diverse people accessing gender-affirming healthcare.
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- 19 June 2020
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- 12 December 2019
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- 8 November 2019
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The Road to Hell: Intersex People, Sexual Health & Human Rights
For Intersex Day of Remembrance, we call upon the international community to join intersex-led efforts to put an end to human rights violations in medical settings and to make the right to truth, justice and reparations a reality for intersex people everywhere.
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- Mauro Cabral Grinspan
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- 8 November 2019
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Joint Statement on ICD-11 process for trans & gender diverse people
The ICD-11 is to be voted in at the 72nd World Health Assembly. After moving trans-related categories out of the Chapter on Mental Health, the next steps in the process include getting rid of the remaining pathologizing language and advancing towards legal depathologization and universal health coverage.
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- 24 May 2019
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Press Release: ICD-11 depathologizes Trans & Gender Diverse identities
Organisations from across the world have signed a joint statement and Call to Action to join with us in working together to fully dismantle pathologization. Trans identities are formally de-psycho-pathologized in the ICD-11.
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- 24 May 2019
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- 23 May 2019
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- Naomhán O’Connor
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- 20 May 2019
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- 16 April 2019
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- 7 April 2019
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WPATH, Listen!
WPATH has a unique responsibility to protect and promote the rights of trans and gender diverse people and, by association, intersex people, in order to ensure that it does not tacitly act as a tool of oppression against those on whom their clinical and research practice is focused. // WPATH tiene la responsabilidad única de proteger y promover los derechos de las personas trans y de género diverso y, por asociación, de las personas intersex, a fin de garantizar que no actúe tácitamente como herramienta de opresión contra aquelles en quienes que se enfocan sus prácticas clínicas y de investigación.
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- 7 December 2018
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Activist Delegation to 25th WPATH Symposium
Akahatá, GATE, ILGA World and TGEU have brought together 50 intersex, trans and gender diverse activists from around the world to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 25th WPATH Symposium from 2-6 November 2018. We will be sharing information during the WPATH Symposium about our engagement and actions, so please follow GATE’s social media for updates.
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- 1 November 2018
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Where is the evidence?
Intersex activists and experts have spent at least 25 years disclosing and bringing to light strong evidence against unconsented and unnecessary medical interventions on intersex people. These interventions lack any sound evidence to support them and their rationales. In recent years, UN Treaty Bodies and many other human rights instruments and institutions have responded to these testimonies [1]. However, they persist.
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- 26 October 2018
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Joint Statement for Depathologization and TDoR 2018
In 2018, trans and gender diverse activists will come together twice in the space of 1 month to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) and to call for another International Day of Action for Trans Depathologization (October 21). This concurrence speaks loudly and clearly about the past, present and future of our communities and movements.
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- 21 October 2018
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- Morgan Carpenter
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- 1 August 2018