Russian Ministry of Heath says drivers license restrictions won't apply to all trans people

[strannik01]

A couple of days ago, there was, shall we say, a bit of an uproar when the Russian government unveiled new drivers license restrictions based on what the document characterized as psychological disorders. While some of them were legitimate disorders that could legitimately affect driving, the list also included "transsexualty," "transvestism" and "

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[zauberer]

The simplest explanation, called for by Occam razor, is that the ICD references were included not on individual diagnosis scale, but the whole classes were taken. There's a big class of disorders in ICD-10 called “Disorders of adult personality and behaviour”, which encompasses blocks F60-F69. All the listed diaginoses fall in one of the blocks, and it's true that non-heterosexual sexual orientation per se is not included in ICD-10 at all. Transsexualism, on the other hand, is listed in ICD-10 under F64.0 block.

On a side note: the letter X as in «Международная классификация болезней X» is not the Russian letter Х (ha), but the Latin X (eks), which stands for Roman numeral 10.