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Transgender no longer a mental 'disorder' in diagnostic manual The American Psychiatric Association announced this month approved changes in its official guide to classifying mental illnesses . Among the major announced changes to the manual, known as DSM-5, is that Asperger's ...

APA Says Being Transgender is No Longer a Mental Disorder On a college campus where acceptance reigns supreme, the latest news from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is groundbreaking. In the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM),” a manual written by the APA that classifies ...