00:00 Peruvian government is under fire from LGBTQ+ groups which have called a protest on Friday
00:06 against a new decree listing transsexualism as a mental disorder. The government updated its list
00:12 of insurable health conditions, which since 2021 has offered benefits for mental health treatment,
00:18 to include services for transgender people. In the decree, the health ministry describes
00:24 the condition as a mental disorder, an obsolete term long officially abandoned by the World
00:29 Health Organization. A demonstration has been called for Lima on Friday,
00:34 the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
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