Call for Applications – Working Group on Trans Depath
GATE is opening a call for applications to participate in our International Working Group on Trans and Gender Diverse Depathologization – TGDepath.
International Classification of Diseases
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.
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.
Press Release: International Classification of Diseases 11 and Intersex people
More than 50 intersex-led organisations and groups from every region of the world have signed a joint statement to the World Health Organization condemning the repathologisation of intersex variations as “disorders of sex development” in the WHO International Classification of Diseases 11 (ICD-11), and medical classifications that promote early surgical intervention to “fix” intersex bodies.
Intersex variations, Human Rights and the ICD
GATE calls on WHO to amend the ICD-11 to break the link between classifications of diseases and violations of human rights.
GATE Submission to WHO on Intersex Issues in the process of ICD reform
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the standard diagnostic tool produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). A new version, called ICD-11, is expected to be… Read More »GATE Submission to WHO on Intersex Issues in the process of ICD reform
Critique and Alternative Proposal to the “Gender Incongruence of Childhood” Category in ICD-11
This document contains recommendations submitted to WHO in 2013 concerning the proposed category of “Gender Incongruence of Childhood”.
It’s time for reform: Trans Health Issues in the ICD
This document discusses alternative models for trans health classifications in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for the ICD-11.