On 16th May, the day before IDAHO, the French Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot, announced that the Haute Autorité de Santé (High Health Authority) had been requested to issue a decree delisting transsexuality as a long term psychiatric illness.
The Ministry of Health said that at present, transsexual people were eligible for care under ALD 23 – a psychiatric disorder of long duration – terminology which is very stigmatising.
The Ministry of Health continued that declassification would not mean withdrawal of medical care nor waiver of the medical diagnosis of gender identity disorder.
Full report in French from Liberation.
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