NBCNews.com'Transsexualism' removed from World Health Organization's disease manualNBCNews.comThe ICD is used in most countries except for the United States and Canada, where psychiatrists follow the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). "Homosexuality" was removed from the DSM's list of ...WHO: Being transgender no longer classified as mental illness. Here's whyWUSA9.comall 144 news articles »