Gender dysphoria was removed from the list of mental-health disorders because activist pressure persuaded the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association to re-label the condition in order to reduce stigma and make medical transition easier to obtain.

• WHO 2019 reclassification – The World Health Organization moved “gender identity disorder” out of the mental-disorders chapter and into a new sexual-health chapter, explaining that this would “reduce discrimination and make it easier to access medical care without being labelled mentally disordered.” “The WHO changed the language … due to political pressure from trans ideologues to lessen social stigma” – sara7147 source [citation:00cee014-84ce-4dc7-95b2-6e7cc7aa88ba]

• DSM-5 2013 wording change – The American Psychiatric Association replaced “Gender Identity Disorder” with “Gender Dysphoria,” shifting the clinical goal from treating a rare mental illness to managing the distress that arises from social stigma surrounding a supposedly natural identity variation. “With the DSM-5 the language changed … what they were treating became the distress related to the social stigma” – burnyourbinder source [citation:e0d7691d-c584-47fe-9776-19791a95c8e5]

Detransitioners who lived through these changes say the redefinitions were driven by political lobbying rather than new scientific evidence, and they warn that softening the diagnostic language has encouraged a surge of adolescents to seek irreversible medical interventions after brief self-diagnoses.