The World Health Organization will no longer classify transgender people as mentally ill and India has declared them as a separate sex person and made it mandatory as a separate column in every application or appointment form or submission. The new draft of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has removed transsexualism from the list of mental disorders. This move will help non-binary and transgender people get better access to healthcare.
The World Health Organisation expects that the move will improve the social acceptance for the transgender community. In an explanatory note, ICD said, "Gender incongruence, meanwhile, has also been moved out of mental disorders in the ICD, into sexual health conditions. The rationale being that while evidence is now clear that it is not a mental disorder, and indeed classifying it in this can cause enormous stigma for people who are…
