translated from Spanish: Superintendency of Health stated to the Isapres that “gender identity is not a disease”

Following the denunciation of a young trans, in addition to protection resources and requests from the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh), the Superintendency of Health prohibited The Isapres from exercising discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The determination was announced through a circular, ending a practice that would have been terminated until now. Circular 336 thus provides instructions on “non-discrimination based on gender identity in membership”. And in this sense, the document states that “gender identity is not a disease, a pathology or a health condition, but is part of the inherent attributes of the human person, so it is not within the declarable pre-existences that our sectoral standard, which motivates this general instruction,” says In this regard, Movilh’s human rights officer Ramón Gómez said that “this is a historic development for the trans population, as they will be able to access equal conditions to all the services offered by the Isapres, which guarantees decent attention and equal access to the processes of body re-adaptation. This ends transphobia on a topic that is very sensitive and relevant to everyone, such as access to health,” he said.

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