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By Karen Kleiss

EDMONTON — Alberta doctors continue to bill the province for treating homosexuality as a mental disorder akin to bestiality and pedophilia, despite assurances from the former health minister in 2010 that the “incorrect and unacceptable classification” would be removed immediately.

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“In December 2010, the minister of health agreed . . . that doctors’ diagnostic billing codes listing sexual orientation under mental illness was unacceptable,” Liberal Laurie Blakeman said in the provincial legislature this week.

“But those billing codes are in use in exactly the same place and say the same things today.”

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In 2010, the last year for which figures are available, doctors billed the province for treating homosexuality as a mental disorder five times.

The province has known about the outdated classification for more than a decade and the government first promised to change it in 1998.