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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness' (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Getting it removed from classification as a mental illness was vital to reducing our systemic oppression back in the day so this is absolutely not a point we should cede

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

It's still classified as a mental disorder, we just dance around the topic a bit. The real change was research indicating that conversion therapy and whatnot don't work and are actively harmful.