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> Homosexuality stopped being a mental illness in 1973 (or 1987 if you include sexual orientation disturbance) Depends on your country. The WHO's ICD-9 documen
by est31 6y ago
> Homosexuality stopped being a mental illness in 1973 (or 1987 if you include sexual orientation disturbance)
Depends on your country. The WHO's ICD-9 document, published in 1977, still included homosexuality as a disease. It was removed in ICD-10, but it was only published in 1990. Countries adopted it in the 1990s and early 2000s. Germany belongs to the group which adopted it in the 2000s. So yes, it happened in the last 20 years.
- manquer 6y agoThere are still plenty of countries and significant chunk of the conservatative US which treats it like a illness, that's not the point. The discussion about 2decades seems to about accepted academic outcome not policy execution, which is always varied. FGM or homeopathy or chinese medicine is still a problem in many parts of the world. We don't think validaty of science or anatomy depends on your country.
- est31 6y agoDefinitely, science shouldn't depend on the country, but the USA isn't the world either, and the person I was replying to equated the USA with the world. At least they should have used the year when ICD-10 came out.
- manquer 6y agoYes, you are right , there is fairly blurry line on when something becomes accepted . ICD-10 could be one unambiguous way to classify.