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The meaning of de-pathologization of transgender identities from human rights perspective: As to the amendment of the ‘11th edition of International Classification of Disease’

  • Journal of Human Rights Studies
  • Abbr : JHRS
  • 2018, 1(1), pp.153-203
  • DOI : 10.22976/JHRS.2018.1.1.153
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Human Rights Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law > Law of Special Parts > Human Rights / International Human Rights Law
  • Received : May 14, 2018
  • Accepted : June 16, 2018
  • Published : June 30, 2018

Park Hanhee 1

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ABSTRACT

In 1990, homosexuality was officially excluded from the diseaselist, However, transgender identities still remains as a mentaldisorder. Since 1900s, medical discussions on transgender havebegun. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association add‘Transsexualism’ and ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ in DSM-III. The pathologization of transgender identities has brought socialstigma and discrimination against transgender people. Therefore, asthe transgender human rights movement has grown up in 1990's,discussion of de-pathologization has developed. In addition, healthmodel of transgender has been shifted from pathology model toself-declaration model. In 2013, the American PsychiatricAssociation revised ‘gender identity disorder’ as ‘gender dysphoria’,which is less pathological terminology. In addition, at 2018. 6. 18.,World Health Organization release ICD-11, which removed ‘genderidentity disorder’, ‘transsexualism’. This revision means thattransgender identity is no longer classified as a mental disorder. De-pathologization of transgender identities is not only related to medical context, also associated with how transgender is treated andrespected in social context. In this respect, discussion ofde-pathologization should be accompanied by changes in genderbinarynorms and structures which suppress transgenders.

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