OAN’s James Myers
2:42 PM – Wednesday, May 15, 2024
The Peruvian government has officially announced that it will classify transgender, non-binary, and even intersex people as “mentally disabled.”
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The paper said the decision was taken to ensure that the country’s public health service has “full guarantees of mental health medical care” for the transgender and gay communities. telegraph Exit.
The new announcement would change the language of the Essentials health insurance plan to reflect that transgender, non-binary and intersex people have mental health disorders. pink news report.
However, transgender and other LGBTQ+ people will not be forced to undergo conversion therapy, the Ministry of Health announced in a statement Friday.
Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ activist groups across Peru heavily criticized the decision, calling the declaration a natural reversal in the “fight for rights and security.”
“100 years after the decriminalization of homosexuality, @Minsa_Peru has nothing better to do than include transgender people in the category of mental illness,” OutfestPeru director Jheinser Pacaya wrote on Twitter ) was written.
“We are demanding it and we will not rest until it is abolished,” they added.
Percy Mayta Tristan, a medical researcher at the University of Southern Sciences in Lima, also said: telegraph He said the decision showed a lack of recognition for the LGBTQ+ community.
“We cannot ignore the context in which this is happening in an ultra-conservative society, where the LGBT community has no rights and labeling them mentally ill opens the door to conversion therapy. ” he claimed.
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