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e version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in application since 2022 has abandoned the notion of “trans-sexualism”, and depsychiatrizes gender incongruence. 518956829/Olga Tsikarishvili – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The protocols have changed and psychiatry no longer has the same place.
They were born boy or girl, but feel they belong to the opposite sex. A mismatch between the gender experienced and the one assigned at birth called “gender incongruence”, or “dysphoria” when it results in psychological distress and suffering. An experience long considered a psychiatric disorder. But the 11e version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in application since 2022 has abandoned the notion of “trans-sexualism”, and depsychiatrizes gender incongruence.
It is difficult to accurately count transgender people. They would be 20,000 to 60,000 according to the associations, but in the scientific literature, self-declared studies estimate the prevalence between 0.2% and 1.3% of adults, indicates Igas in a 2022 report. For all these people born in the wrong body, living a different gender and becoming themselves goes through a social transition, and for some a medical transition using hormones and/or…
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