The World Health Organization is moving toward declassifying transgender identity as a mental disorder in its global list of medical conditions, with a new study lending additional support to a proposal that would delete the decades-old designation. The change, which has so far been approved by each committee that has ... Read More »
The World Health Organisation is considering removing transgender identity from its list of mental illnesses. Calls for the WHO to look at reclassifying transgender identity came following a study led by the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, which suggested transgender people struggled to access health ... Read More »
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the principal public health body of the United Nations (UN) and it recently announced it is beginning to take steps to remove being transgender off its classification list of mental and behavioural disorders. This is a positive move, but I find it hard to ... Read More »
A federal judge says a transgender teen should not be blocked from using the boy’s bathroom at school while the school board pursues an appeal in the student’s discrimination lawsuit. U.S. District Court Judge Robert G. Doumar had ordered the Gloucester County School Board in June to let Gavin Grimm ... Read More »
North Carolina’s corridors of power, no vicinity holds extra political urgency in recent times than the toilet. And no time may be greater urgent than the following day every day address what the U.S.authorities considers a rely of intercourse discrimination. Monday is the deadline the Justice branch set for North ... Read More »
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has voted to lobby for better training on the issue for school staff. Schools were “ill-prepared” for such issues, one teacher told the gathering. But practical steps to modify changing facilities, toilets and uniforms are straightforward, say teachers with experience of supporting these pupils. ... Read More »
