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- 5 February 2018
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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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- Published
- 15 December 2017
News
Press Release: Gender is not an illness: How pathologizing trans people violates international human rights law
Gender Is Not An Illness presents the argument that the pathologization of trans people infringes international human rights law, and leads to a range of human rights violations across civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights.
- Published
- 15 December 2017
UN Document
GATE Submission to WHO on Intersex Issues in the process of ICD reform
The proposed ICD-11 draft introduces the category of “disorders of sex development” as the diagnostic umbrella term for intersex variations. We propose to replace it with “congenital variations of sex characteristics”, and other additional systemic changes.
- Published
- 10 October 2017
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- UN Document
- Work area
- Human Rights | Movement Building
- Published
- 6 June 2017
Article
Amets Suess: Nos preocupa la patologización de la diversidad de género en la infancia
Amets Suess of Stop Trans Pathologization (STP), a global initiative advocating for the depathologization of trans* individuals, writes about a growing concernt regarding the medicalization of gender diversity in childhood.NOTE: This article is available in Spanish only.
- Written by
- Amets Suess
- Published
- 28 October 2015
Article
Viviane Vergueiro: Despatologizar é descolonizar
Based on the limited data at our disposal and within the activism networks Viviane engages with, the present conditions for trans individuals in Brazil persist in causing concern, contributing to the broader phenomenon of trans genocide worldwide.NOTE: This article is only available in Portuguese.
- Written by
- Viviane Vergueiro
- Published
- 26 October 2015
- Written by
- Sam Winter
- Published
- 23 October 2015
News
Intersex Issues in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
From discussions at the Third International Intersex Forum in Malta, December 2013, a meeting of activists and experts took place in Geneva, in September 2014, on revision and reform of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- 26 November 2014
Publication
Intersex Issues in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) document
This report establishes a set of grounding principles, and provides an overview of terminological and historical issues, before an analysis of broad and specific issues with the ICD framework and diagnoses. The submission also details human rights concerns and presents an epistemological analysis.
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- 26 November 2014