Denmark to declassify being transgender as mental disorder


Revellers take part in the annual Gay Pride parade along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 29, 2016. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

COPENHAGEN: Denmark will next year declassify “being transgender” as a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament health committee decided on Tuesday.

“It is completely inappropriate to call it a sickness,” the committee’s deputy chairman Flemming Moller Mortensen told AFP.

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