According to the World Health Organization, being transgender is a mental illness.But that could soon change, as WHO prepares a new edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD ...

The current version, ICD-10, has been around since 1990 and ICD-11 is expected to be approved in 2018. WHO may soon no longer classify being transgender as a mental illness.

Transgender identity has changed in the DSM too, classified under “sexual deviations” in 1968, “psychosexual disorders” in 1980 and “sexual and gender identity disorders” in 1994.

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will no longer include "gender identity disorder" -- the term applied in the manual since 1980 ...

On December 1, the American Psychiatric Association's board of trustees approved the latest revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, aka the DSM-V. In the revisions to ...