The History of Pathologization in Western Medicine: LGBTIQ+ Lives and Struggles

2023-06-30 16:59:30

First modification: 06/30/2023 – 18:59

Until 1990, the WHO considered homosexuality as a disease. Only in 2019, the body stopped categorizing trans people as people with a mental disorder. They are examples of the pathologization that LGBTIQ+ lives have received for decades in Western medicine that, even today, controls and governs people with dissident gender identities or sexual orientations.

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