Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country’s health ministry announced on Tuesday, following a backlash to the move that critics derided as unnecessary and discriminatory. The decision comes after hundreds of protesters took the streets of the capital Lima last month to demand the scrapping of a new law that described those who identify as transgender, along with “cross dressers” and those with “gender identity disorders” as mentally ill and eligible for health services via both public and private providers. Opponents of the law argued that the ministry’s update of the country’s PEAS health regulations was also unnecessary, since existing rules already allowed for universal access to mental health services.