Being transgender will no longer be equated with mental illness in Denmark, according to government officials who say they will remove the “stigmatizing” label.
Danish politicians said that they had “run out of patience” with waiting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to take the same steps, in the meantime leaving transgender people globally classified as mentally ill. Unless the WHO acts now, Denmark will be going through with the change on the first day of 2017. Souce