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Why is homosexuality no longer considered a mental disorder?
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A meeting of the: psychiatric community makes a determination of what conditions are considered a mental disorder. these are published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. These change every several years.
Answered 1/19/2015
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