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In the ICD-10, transsexualism is located within Gender identity disorders, F64 in ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders under the heading "Disorders of adult personality and behaviour". ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (2018)
Gender identity disorder is classified as a medical disorder by the ICD-10 CM and DSM-5 (called gender dysphoria). Many transgender people and researchers support declassification of GID because they say the diagnosis pathologizes gender variance , reinforces the binary model of gender , and can result in stigmatization of transgender individuals.
The psychiatric diagnosis of gender identity disorder (now gender dysphoria) was introduced in DSM-III in 1980. Arlene Istar Lev and Deborah Rudacille have characterized the addition as a political maneuver to re-stigmatize homosexuality. [107] [108] (Homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder in the DSM-II in 1974.)
The ICD-11 replaced the outdated categories "transsexualism" and "gender identity disorder of childhood", present in the ICD-10, with "gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood" and "gender incongruence of childhood" respectively in addition to moving them from the chapter "Mental and behavioral disorders" to the chapter "Conditions ...
In the ICD-10, the group Gender identity disorders consisted of three main categories: Transsexualism , Dual-role transvestism , and Gender identity disorder of childhood . In the ICD-11, Dual-role transvestism was deleted due to a lack of public health or clinical relevance. [ 64 ]
It was described as a disorder of anxiety or depression related to an uncertainty about one's gender identity or sexual orientation. [2] In 2014, it was determined that there was no justification for the existence of this mental disorder category, and the diagnosis was not included in the ICD-11, which went into effect in January 2022. [3]
This list features both the added and removed subtypes. Also, 22 ICD-9-CM codes were updated. [2] The ICD codes stated in the first column are those from the DSM-IV-TR. The ones that were updated are marked yellow – the older ICD codes from the DSM-IV are stated in the third column.
A disorder of anxiety or depression related to an uncertainty about one's gender identity or sexual orientation has been classified as sexual maturation disorder by the World Health Organization in the ICD-10, under "Psychological and behavioural disorders associated with sexual development and orientation". [25]