Peru Govt Classify Transgender Mentally Ill People

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The LGBTQ community in Peru is criticizing the government over a law passed that all intersex, transgender and others are mentally ill.

President Dina Boluarte, Health Minister César Vásquez and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Arista Arbildo, signed the law that individuals identified as transgender, transsexualism, gays, bisexuals, lesbians, gender identity disorder in childhood and others should be categorised under the health insurance scheme.

Activists protesting in Peru have called the law derogatory and obsolete to their community putting them in the eyes of discrimination.

With various outrages on X, Cristian González Cabrera an LGBTQ lawyer, is requesting the government to withdraw the law that categorized them as mentally ill people.