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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Calls to remove transsexualism from WHO disorders list

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, November 19, 2012

Calls to remove transsexualism from WHO disorders list

In the lead up to Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20), thousands have signed a petition to have transsexualism removed from the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) mental disorders list. The petition, launched by Gold Coast transsexual ...

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