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Trans people are officially classified as 'mentally ill' in Peru
Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:55 pm
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Peru has officially classified trans people as 'mentally ill'.
Under the decree signed by President Dina Boluarte, 'transsexualism, dual-role transvestism, gender identity disorder in childhood, other gender identity disorders and fetishistic transvestism' are now all recorded as mental illnesses.
The move, which comes just days before the 34-year anniversary of the World Health Organisation's removal of homosexuality from the list of International Classification of Diseases (ICD), has prompted fury from rights groups.
The WHO also removed transsexuality from its disease manual in 2019 when a new version of the ICD was proposed and came into effect in 2022.
Peru's government argues the decree will make 'psychological treatment' freely available to those affected and said it 'categorically reaffirms respect for the dignity of the person and their free actions within the framework of human rights, providing health services for their benefit'.
But rights groups warned the inclusion of trans and intersex people as mentally ill could open the door to conversion therapy, which is currently banned in Peru.
Where its neighbours have grown more accepting, the South American nation has garnered a reputation for intolerance of transgenderism and LGBTQ.
In 2008, transgender woman Azul Rojas Marin was arrested, brutally raped and tortured by a trio of police officers, but her criminal complaint was ultimately closed by the authorities.
Infuriated by the Peru judiciary's refusal to act on the complaint, rights groups presented Azul's case to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), which in 2018 decided that her treatment constituted torture and discriminatory violence.
When Peruvian authorities continued to ignore the findings and calls for compensation, the IACHR submitted the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which in 2020 found Peru responsible for the torture and sexual violence committed by Peruvian police officers against Azul.
Peruvian authorities did not recognise their culpability until November 2022, when the then Minister for Justice formally apologised to the victim - but the implementation of compensation still has not been decided.
Speaking on the latest decree, Percy Mayta-Tristan, a medical researcher at Lima's Scientific University of the South, said it revealed a lack of awareness of complex LGBT issues.
'You can't ignore the context that this is happening in a super-conservative society, where the LGBT community has no rights and where labelling them as mentally ill opens the door to conversion therapy,' he told Yahoo News.
Meanwhile in Argentina, three women were killed in an arson attack last week after a man lobbed a Molotov cocktail at the home of two lesbian couples in Buenos Aires.
The May 6 attack, widely seen as a hate crime, shocked many in a nation that considers itself to be a pioneer of gay rights in Latin America.
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Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:59 pm to stout
I accept and understand that being gay is a thing.
Trans I can never accept
Trans I can never accept
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:04 pm to stout
The real question is why not here?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:05 pm to fareplay
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I accept and understand that being gay is a thing.
Trans I can never accept
It's always been a thing throughout time, only the recent explosion points well towards social contagion rather than natural phenomena.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:06 pm to BeachDude022
Being bipolar is a mental disorder in this country
Thinking you are the opposite sex and cutting your dick off isn’t. It’s wild
Even if you beleive trannies should get to pull out their big dick right next you your 8 year old daughter in the bathroom, how can you not call it a mental disorder?
Thinking you are the opposite sex and cutting your dick off isn’t. It’s wild
Even if you beleive trannies should get to pull out their big dick right next you your 8 year old daughter in the bathroom, how can you not call it a mental disorder?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 1:15 pm to stout
Good. They need mental treatment.
Posted on 5/16/24 at 9:13 pm to stout
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Trans people are officially classified as 'mentally ill'
Posted on 5/16/24 at 9:24 pm to stout
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The WHO also removed transsexuality from its disease manual in 2019 when a new version of the ICD was proposed and came into effect in 2022.
Leftists claim to believe in and follow science, but yet don’t hesitate to distort or ignore it when it goes against their political agenda.
Posted on 5/16/24 at 10:50 pm to lsupride87
I think people would tolerate the idea more if it was thought of as a disorder. Confusing thing is, many of trans people and supporters would proudly proclaim they have ocd,add,bpd etc., but the idea of gender DYSphoria being a dysfunction is unacceptable.
Posted on 5/16/24 at 11:45 pm to stout
Javier Milei in Argentina was like dad gum I better step my game up even more
Posted on 5/17/24 at 5:04 am to stout
Finally, a common sense approach to.mental illness
Posted on 5/17/24 at 5:27 am to stout
It's all fun and games to make jokes but it's sad how shitty America is becoming and how much worse it'll be for our sons than it was for us.
We've failed out fathers allowing these sick perverts to become idols in our society while getting taxed almost half of our entire paychecks just to see our country invaded and more of our money go to support illegal aliens and not vets.
Now places like Peru show more intelligence and leadership than us.
We've failed out fathers allowing these sick perverts to become idols in our society while getting taxed almost half of our entire paychecks just to see our country invaded and more of our money go to support illegal aliens and not vets.
Now places like Peru show more intelligence and leadership than us.
Posted on 5/17/24 at 5:32 am to stout
I don’t think the lgbtq crowd is going to like the outcome the next decade.
Posted on 5/17/24 at 6:03 am to stout
My brother is in Lima right now. He better get his candy arse back home soon before he gets locked up.
Posted on 5/17/24 at 6:08 am to jizzle6609
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I don’t think the lgbtq crowd is going to like the outcome the next decade.
We will definitely see some resistance to this new trans movement but it will have to take a "Blackfish-esque" documentary to open people's eyes about what is actually happening. Right now it is portrayed as sunshine, rainbows and lollipops for trans people after their gender affirmation therapies and surgeries.
Posted on 5/17/24 at 6:42 am to stout
If I could have my brain but be a woman that’d be cool because every woman gets food stamps
Posted on 5/17/24 at 6:47 am to stout
Peru > Untied States of America
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