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1. So, the DOJ's filing states "gender dysphoria" is a mental disorder according to the DSM?
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:52 AM
Mar 2025

And "service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service and will be processed for separation"?

The World Health Organization stated that transgender health issues will no longer be classified as mental and behavioural disorders under big changes to the WHO's global manual of diagnoses: "Dr Lale Say, a reproductive health expert at the World Health Organization, said: 'It was taken out from mental health disorders because we had a better understanding that this was not actually a mental health condition, and leaving it there was causing stigma'...He added: 'Governments should swiftly reform national medical systems and laws that require this now officially outdated diagnosis.'"

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48448804

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