despatologizar

A modern technical term from psychology, medicine, and activism meaning to remove the label of "pathology" or "disorder" from a condition or identity — most notably in despatologizar la transexualidad, the movement (culminating in the WHO's 2019 ICD-11) to stop classifying trans identities as a mental illness. It's specialized vocabulary from health-policy and LGBTQ+ rights discourse, not everyday conversation.

• La OMS dio un paso clave al despatologizar la transexualidad en 2019. — The WHO took a key step by depathologizing being transgender in 2019.
• El colectivo exige despatologizar ciertas identidades de género. — The group is demanding that certain gender identities be depathologized.
• El informe analiza cómo despatologizar el diagnóstico sin dejar de garantizar el acceso a la atención médica. — The report examines how to depathologize the diagnosis without losing access to medical care.

Using this outside its specific medical/activist register — it's not a general synonym for "destigmatize"; it specifically means removing something from a clinical classification of disease or disorder.