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Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization
Background: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the one allocated to them at birth. In many countries, transsexualism and transgenderism are considered mental illnesses under the diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This pathologization impacts on human rights. Main content: The Unite...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30889934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16060978 |
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author | Castro-Peraza, Maria Elisa García-Acosta, Jesús Manuel Delgado, Naira Perdomo-Hernández, Ana María Sosa-Alvarez, Maria Inmaculada Llabrés-Solé, Rosa Lorenzo-Rocha, Nieves Doria |
author_facet | Castro-Peraza, Maria Elisa García-Acosta, Jesús Manuel Delgado, Naira Perdomo-Hernández, Ana María Sosa-Alvarez, Maria Inmaculada Llabrés-Solé, Rosa Lorenzo-Rocha, Nieves Doria |
author_sort | Castro-Peraza, Maria Elisa |
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description | Background: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the one allocated to them at birth. In many countries, transsexualism and transgenderism are considered mental illnesses under the diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This pathologization impacts on human rights. Main content: The United Nations (UN) has denounced violations against trans-people, including attacks, forced medical treatments, lack of legal gender recognition, and discrimination in the areas of education, employment, access to healthcare, and justice. The UN has linked these violations directly with discriminatory diagnostic classifications that pathologize gender diversity. Trans-people have been pathologized by psycho-medical classification and laws all around the world, with a different impact depending on countries. This paper argues that pathologization infringes infringes upon a wide range of human rights such as; civil, economic, social cultural and also the access to medical care. Conclusions: The current situation for trans-people with respect to legal healthcare matters, depends on the country. Human rights are universal, not a question for cultural interpretation. They are the minimum that every human being must have assured only by the fact of being human. Countries must protect these rights by regulating trans-pathologization with special attention dedicated to intersex people and their specific needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-64661672019-04-22 Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization Castro-Peraza, Maria Elisa García-Acosta, Jesús Manuel Delgado, Naira Perdomo-Hernández, Ana María Sosa-Alvarez, Maria Inmaculada Llabrés-Solé, Rosa Lorenzo-Rocha, Nieves Doria Int J Environ Res Public Health Discussion Background: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the one allocated to them at birth. In many countries, transsexualism and transgenderism are considered mental illnesses under the diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This pathologization impacts on human rights. Main content: The United Nations (UN) has denounced violations against trans-people, including attacks, forced medical treatments, lack of legal gender recognition, and discrimination in the areas of education, employment, access to healthcare, and justice. The UN has linked these violations directly with discriminatory diagnostic classifications that pathologize gender diversity. Trans-people have been pathologized by psycho-medical classification and laws all around the world, with a different impact depending on countries. This paper argues that pathologization infringes infringes upon a wide range of human rights such as; civil, economic, social cultural and also the access to medical care. Conclusions: The current situation for trans-people with respect to legal healthcare matters, depends on the country. Human rights are universal, not a question for cultural interpretation. They are the minimum that every human being must have assured only by the fact of being human. Countries must protect these rights by regulating trans-pathologization with special attention dedicated to intersex people and their specific needs. MDPI 2019-03-18 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6466167/ /pubmed/30889934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16060978 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Discussion Castro-Peraza, Maria Elisa García-Acosta, Jesús Manuel Delgado, Naira Perdomo-Hernández, Ana María Sosa-Alvarez, Maria Inmaculada Llabrés-Solé, Rosa Lorenzo-Rocha, Nieves Doria Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title | Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title_full | Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title_fullStr | Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title_short | Gender Identity: The Human Right of Depathologization |
title_sort | gender identity: the human right of depathologization |
topic | Discussion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30889934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16060978 |
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