Beg gay is not a disease, Vietnam tells s medil workers bid to end anti-LGBTQ discrimatn - CBS News

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• VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
• BEG GAY IS NOT A DISEASE, VIETNAM TELLS S MEDIL WORKERS BID TO END ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMATN

VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS

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. Although the WHO has taken homosexualy off s list of diseas, other forms of discrimatn still rema, says San Cochran, a psychologist and epimlogist at the Universy of California Los Angel (UCLA): “Although beg gay or lbian is no longer classified as a disorr, s place emerged new tegori of ‘gay-related’ diseas. Forty-four years ago today, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) -- the largt psychiatric anizatn the world -- ma history by issug a rolutn statg that homosexualy was not a mental illns or sickns.

BEG GAY IS NOT A DISEASE, VIETNAM TELLS S MEDIL WORKERS BID TO END ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMATN

Ho Chi Mh Cy, Vietnam – Phong Vuong was preparg for the lnch of a mpaign advotg for the legalisatn of gay marriage when he heard that the ernment had cid that homosexualy was “not a disease”. The official announcement, sent to provcial and municipal health partments natnwi before beg released on the ernment’s onle rmatn portal on Augt 8, stat that Vietnam’s health mister had received rmatn that some healthre tablishments were claimg to offer “cur” for homosexualy. Based on this, and cg the World Health Organisatn’s (WHO) removal of homosexualy and beg transgenr om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas, go on to outle five primary guil for the health system.