In response to the most recent research into how people with female names differ from those given at birth, the Japanese Society of Gender Identity Disorder, a system that promotes trans reports, has decided to drop the word “disorder” from its name.
The shift, announced Sunday at its general meet, is in line with the World Health Organization’s latest suggestions to use the word “gender incongruence” instead of “gender problem”. The society’s fresh English title is yet to be fully decided.
Mikiya Nakatsuka, mind of the Chinese Society of Gender Identity Disorder, speaks to reporters in Okinawa Prefecture on March 17, 2024. ( Kyodo )
Mikiya Nakatsuka, the society’s leader and a teacher at Okayama University’s graduate school, expressed desire that the name change would help raise the public’s awareness of transgender people after the conference with reporters in Okinawa Prefecture.
” Without a political change, the difficulties faced by trans people did persist”, Nakatsuka said.
The WHO removed the term “gender identification disorder” from its 2022 global diagnostic manual and placed it in its sexual health chapter, which is intended to treat the condition as a mental disorder.
Since its founding as a study group in 1999, the world has been calling itself gender identity disorder, but it suggested a name change to its members in response to the global shift, which included the addition of the term “gender dysphoria” as the term was replaced by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013.
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