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On 2024-05-16, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> 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.

It's not a waste of time until the stupidity is ended.

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