1/ Transgender has never been considered a disorder; it has never been listed, & was coined to escape medical listing. #Transsexualism (the diagnosis for medical treatments to change body characteristics 🖼️, which most TG people don't want) & Gender Identity Disorder were… 
2/… listed, wrongly as mental disorders. The later is rewritten as Gender Dysphoria, a diagnosis for counselling (which most TG people don't need). The proposal is to move them, in WHO #ICD, to a sexual health section, but some activists also want #transsexualism erased…
3/… & prepubertal #trans children denied any diagnosis. We suspect they were people who never needed the protect & reassurance of a diagnosis as a child, perhaps don't believe such children exist, & don't themselves want medical treatment to change their bodies.
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