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GROUPS WANT GAY DIAGNOS OUT OF ICD-11
In this, the DSM followed a long tradn medice and psychiatry, which the neteenth century appropriated homosexualy om the Church and, what mt have seemed like an élan of enlightenment, promoted om s to mental disorr.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn (WHO) Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn. Available rearch stead dit that the majory of children diagnosed wh DSM‐IV Genr inty disorr of childhood, which was not as strict s requirements as those proposed for ICD‐11, grow up to be cisgenr (non‐transgenr) adults wh a homosexual orientatn78, 79, 80.