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Old 06-14-2012, 06:10 PM   #1
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Default Homosexuality no longer classed as ‘mental illness’ in Alberta billing code

Kinda surprised it hadn't happened earlier, but a positive change nonetheless.

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EDMONTON - The province has rewritten controversial billing codes that treated sexual minorities as people with mental disorders akin to bestiality and pedophilia.

After more than 15 years of pressure from advocacy groups, the Progressive Conservatives have replaced the offending section with modern language that says gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer Albertan’s are not suffering from a mental illness.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ho...983/story.html
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