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Gender dysphoria and its social context
a trans woman risked losing the children she fathered before her transition. Because she is trans, a lawyer has argued that her GID is a “severe, chronic mental illness that might be harmful to the child.”
But in other cases, a GID diagnosis justifies insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery and other medical procedures that sometimes accompany a transition. Having a diagnosis is the difference between a necessary medical procedure and something that can be perceived as cosmetic surgery that insurance won’t cover
Gender dysphoria and its social context
Danish politicians ‐> WHO to remove transgender from a category of mental illness in the ICD‐10
If not by 01/01/2017 ‐> they would act unilaterally and they did!
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