Peru health regulations update for transgender individuals

Key Points

• Peru updates health regulations to stop labeling transgender individuals as suffering from mental disorders
• Hundreds of protesters in Lima demanded the scrapping of the discriminatory law
• Ministry now uses the term “gender discordance” for mental and behavioral health classifications

Pros

• Respect for the dignity and rights of transgender individuals
• Elimination of discriminatory health regulations
• Acknowledgment of the unnecessary nature of the previous law

Cons

• Initial discriminatory law labeling transgender individuals as mentally ill
• Need for protests to prompt the change in regulations

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