Sweden Removes Transvestism from List of Disorders

Διαβάζω στον ιστότοπο της IFGE (International Foundation for Gender Education - εδώ), που βγάζει και το περιοδικό Transgender Tapestry, ότι η Σουηδία αφαίρεσε από τον κατάλογο των ψυχικών ασθενειών τον τρανσβεστισμό:

Sweden: November 16, 2008
Transvestism, along with six other sexual behaviours, will be struck from Sweden’s official list of medical diagnoses starting on January 1st, 2009. The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) took the decision to declassify the behaviours as illnesses in order to avoid strengthening prejudices about them, said Lars-Erik Holm, Director General of Health and Welfare.
“We don't want to contribute to certain sexual behaviours being thought of as diseases. These individuals’ sexual preferences have nothing to do with society,” he explained in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
The other diagnoses which will soon disappear from the disease registry include fetishism, fetishistic transvestitism, sadomasochism, gender identity disorder in youth, and multiple disorders of sexual preferences.

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