The AP (8/24, Lavoie) reports “a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that” gender dysphoria is covered by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. This “ruling could become a powerful tool to challenge legislation restricting access to medical care and other accommodations for transgender people, including employment and government benefits, advocates said.” The appellate court “cited advances in medical understanding that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove gender identity disorder from the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and to add gender dysphoria, defined in the manual as the ‘clinically significant distress’ felt by some transgender people.”
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— “Gender dysphoria covered by disability law, court rules” Denise Lavoie, AP, August 24, 2022