Transsexuality is no longer a disease

by Letizia Orlandi - 2012.12.06

Transsexuals are not mentally ill. Finally, the Bible of psychiatry puts it in black on white. The DSM-5, an acronym for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, powerful tool for psychiatrists, psychologists and other professionals, has eliminated the Gender Identity Disorder from its fifth edition (published in May 2013). Retaining in the list only the "gender dysphoria", i.e. the anxiety suffered by those who do not identify with neither the male nor the female sex. Activists and transgender people around the world rejoice. Since years they have been asked to be excluded from the psychiatric manual. Even in countries where the right to feel like a woman or man is recognized, indeed, where it is legal to change your name and undergo genital surgery, it was still classified as sickness. Until today.