The health ministry in Peru classified people identifying as transgender or non-binary as “mentally ill” in a decree to offer more mental health services Wednesday.
President Dina Boluarte signed the decree stating “transsexualism, dual-role transvestism, gender identity disorder in childhood, other gender identity disorders and fetishistic transvestism” are all to be classified as mental illnesses, according to The Telegraph. The ministry made the move to “guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health.”
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“Experimental drugs with huge harms should never have been given to children in the first place. Finally common sense, scientific fact and medical ethics have triumphed,” TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer said.
The NHS announced the agency will update its constitution to defend biological sex in late April to set guidance for doctors’ care for patients.
A German study published in late February found that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones given to minors are “low quality” and have “significant conceptual and methodological flaws.” The study further found that these procedures do not show any improvement in a child’s mental health.
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Internal training footage exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed several doctors belonging to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Global Education Institute recognized harmful effects associated with sex change procedures and pointed out the uncertainty around how hormone treatments impact fertility.
* Original Article:
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/15/peru-transgender-people-mentally-ill/
