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On Thu, 16 May 2024 09:54:07 -0400, John Smyth wrote:

> Why did this take so long?
> 
> 
> 'LGBTQIAP2S+ Outrage over Peru Declaring Transgenderism a Mental
> Illness'
> 
> <https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/05/15/lgbtqiap2s-outrage-
over-peru-declaring-transgenderism-mental-illness/>
> 
> 'The government of Peru signed a Supreme Decree this weekend defining
> transexuality as a mental disorder as part of an update to the nation’s
> Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS), prompting outrage from the
> LGBTQIAP2S+ community.
> 
> While the definition, according to the Peruvian government, seeks to
> give access to those identifying as transgender or other gender
> identities to health insurance coverage, the decree has been met with
> fierce backlash by local LGBTQIAP2S+ activists and politicians.
> 
> The PEAS is a minimum healthcare benefit plan that Peruvian citizens
> receive when enrolling in the nation’s public, private, or mixed health
> insurance providers. PEAS provides for the basic medical procedures a
> citizen needs and contains a detailed list of outpatient medical care,
> tests, specialized consultations, and other treatments that patients may
> be entitled to according to their particular health condition.
> 
> The controversial decree stated that, following a review of the
> diagnoses included in the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) 10th
> International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) that are included in
> the country’s PEAS health program, the omission of “seven (07) ICD-10
> diagnoses” related to mental health problems were found, which,
> according to the decree, “should be incorporated” into the nation’s
> healthcare plans taking into account Peru’s mental health laws.
> 
> As such, the decree defines transexualism, “dual role transvestism,”
> child gender identity disorder, “other gender identity disorders,” and
> “gender identity disorder, unspecified” as mental health problems in
> accordance with the definitions established by the W.H.O.’s ICD-10
> manual.
> 
> The decree stated that the inclusion of said diagnoses allows them to be
> covered according to the list of health benefits of Peru’s PEAS
> healthcare program.
> 
> While the decree utilizes W.H.O.’s ICD-10 as its basis, the World Health
> Organization has since replaced it with a newer 11th edition that no
> longer defines transexualism as a mental illness. The ICD-11 was
> presented to the World Health Assembly in 2019 and went into effect in
> January 2022.
> 
> Shortly after the decree was published, the Peruvian Health Ministry
> issued a statement on Saturday in which it ratified its position that
> ”gender and sexual diversity are not diseases” while also expressing
> “respect for gender identities, as well as our rejection of the
> stigmatization of sexual diversity in the country.”
> 
> “The sexual orientation and gender identity of a person does not
> constitute in itself a physical or mental health disorder and,
> therefore, should not be subjected to treatment or medical care or
> so-called reconversion therapies,” the statement read.
> 
> The Ministry explained that, to ensure “complete mental health care
> coverage,” the PEAS plan was updated “in view of the need to ensure the
> benefit of comprehensive mental health interventions, as conditions for
> the full exercise of the right to health and well-being of the
> individual, the family and the community.”
> 
>  “ICD-10 remains in effect in our country, as long as the progressive
> implementation of ICD-11 is initiated, as it happens in other countries
> of the region,” the statement read.
> 
> Local activist Shely Cabrera told the Argentine outlet Infobae on
> Tuesday that, while the decree does modify the PEAS plan to establish
> “which diseases are, in some way, covered by insurance,” the decree
> “posed a threat to members of the LGBTQIA+ community throughout Peru.”
> 
> She said:
> 
> There is a previous decree, which is from 2021, that makes this update
> of the Health Insurance Plan and this one, which is 009-2024, modifies
> it to add these new categories, based on the ICD-10, which is a document
> that dates back to 1992. The ICD is the international classification of
> diseases, it is a global diagnostic system that is approved by the World
> Health Assembly (WHA); however, the ICD-11 is currently in force, from
> 2019 and came into force in 2022. This does not pathologize, it does not
> consider disorders or diseases of any kind to sexual and gender
> diversities.
> 
> Cabrera claimed that the decree will “further promote the dissemination
> of speech that violates the dignity of these people, since
> discriminatory groups will be able to rely on the law by saying that it
> is a disease.”
> 
> “In the case of trans persons, they will not be respected and will be
> exposed to be called by their social name, their pronouns will not be
> considered and one of the most basic rights, which is identity, will not
> be recognized,” Cabrera asserted.
> 
> Similarly, local LGBT activists have denounced the decree as
> “discriminatory,” claiming that the categorization of transgender
> identity as a mental illness “contributes to stigma and aggravates the
> consequences for a minority already subject to discrimination.”
> 
> Herberth Cuba, advisor to the Peruvian Health Ministry, told CNN en
> Español on Tuesday that although the ministry does not consider sexual
> orientation and gender identity mental health disorders, it is necessary
> to take the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 — and its definition of
> transexualism as a mental illness — as basis for the PEAS plan update as
> ICD-10 is the current medical classification in effect in Peru.
> 
> Cuba asserted that, although the update may seem contradictory, it is
> the only way to ensure the benefit of comprehensive mental health care
> to the entire population, including Peru’s LGBT population.
> 
> Peruvian lawmaker Flor Pablo Medina denounced the decree on Tuesday as
> “shameful” and issued a formal request to Peruvian President Dina
> Boluarte and the Peruvian Health Ministry to repeal the decree.
> 
> 
> “We cannot allow it to go backwards, denigrate and violate the rights to
> equality and non-discrimination, as well as the right to health and
> other rights of LGBTI people in Peru,” Medina’s message read.'

The "community" has already provided all the evidence necessary to prove 
that it is a mental illness. Discussing it further is a complete waste of 
time.