Version imprimableEditorial, The Times of India, October 15, 2021
The medical profession has a worldwide history of treating homosexuality as an illness, which in turn has played a significant role in the stigmatisation of non-hetrosexual identities. Recent decades have thankfully begun to see a better-informed consensus emerge, thanks to both activisms and attention to scientific evidence. But in India, as the Madras high court said last month, queerphobia continues to be rampant in medical education.
Now the National Medical Commission has done right to issue an advisory to all medical universities and colleges to stop teaching in ways that are
